Energy scenarios for the Faroe Islands: A MCDA methodology including local social perspectives

Planning for the decarbonisation of island energy systems is both crucial and fraught with complexities. The process to develop evaluate these plans needs encompass not only technical economic specifics but each plan's impacts on environment local inhabitants must also be considered. This inclusive planning involves multiple criteria requires a means handling them. In this paper series potential future are generated EnergyPlan software Faroe Islands before assessed using set covering their environmental, social, aspects. These used by two multi-criteria approaches, along actual weights obtained from stakeholders, rank systems. It found that there clear shift in rankings towards employing offshore technologies due inclusion social specifically fitted Islands’ resident's preferences. shift, however, was sufficient scenarios outperform other performed well criteria. findings indicate likely value terms acceptance transition adjusting include greater quantities strategies.