Multi-person selection of the best wind turbine based on the multi-criteria integrated additive-multiplicative utility function

Abstract

Energy generation and savings is a vital problem for the social and economic development of a modern world. The construction of wind farms is a challenge of crucial importance to Lithuania. Offshore wind farms are one of the possibilities of the multiple use of marine space. Wind energy industry has become the fastest growing renewable energy in the world. An offshore wind farm is considered one of the most promising sources of green energy towards meeting the EU targets for 2020 and 2050. They provide long-term green energy production. The major purpose of this study is the selection and ranking of the feasible location areas of wind farms and assessing the types of wind turbines in the Baltic Sea offshore area. Multi-criteria decision making methods represent a robust and flexible tool investigating and assessing possible discrete alternatives evaluated applying the aggregated WSM and WPM method namely WASPAS. The following criteria such as the nominal power of the wind turbine, max power generated in the area, the amount of energy per year generated in the area, investments and CO₂ emissions have been taken into consideration.

Keywords:

• offshore
• wind turbine
• foundations
• MCDM
• WASPAS

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Vygantas Bagočius

Vygantas BAGOČIUS. PhD student at the Department of Construction Technology and Management of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Master of Construction Engineering, Kaipėda University, 2010. Research interests: building technologies, construction management, multiple criteria analysis and decision-making theories.

Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

Edmundas Kazimieras ZAVADSKAS. PhD, DSc, h.c.multi. Prof., Head of the Department of Construction Technology and Management at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Internet and Intelligent Technologies. A member of Lithuanian and several foreign Academies of Sciences. Doctore Honoris Causa from Poznan, Saint-Petersburg and Kiev universities. The Honorary International Chair Professor in the National Taipei University of Technology. A member of international organizations; a member of steering and programme committees at many international conferences; a member of editorial boards of several research journals; the author and co-author of more than 400 papers and a number of monographs in Lithuanian, English, German and Russian. Editor-in-Chief of journals Technological and Economic Development of Economy and Journal of Civil Engineering and Management. Research interests: building technology and management, decision-making theory, automation in design and decision support systems.

Zenonas Turskis

Zenonas TURSKIS. Prof. Dr of Technical Sciences, Senior Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Construction Technology and Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Research interests: building technology and management, decision-making theory, computer-aided automation in design, expert systems.