Decision problem for renewable energy planning in Turkey (Dataset). June 2019

<p>This dataset compromises the decision problem for renewable energy planning in Turkey, adopted from the literature&nbsp;(Kahraman and Kaya 2010; Erdogan and Kaya 2015; Mousavi et al. 2017).</p> <p>The decision problem consists in evaluating and selecting the most appropriate renewable energy alternative for Turkey, and includes:</p> <ul> <li>Five alternatives (<strong>Hydro, Wind, Solar, Biomass, and Geothermal</strong>).</li> <li>Five dimensions fo criteria (<strong>Technological, Technical, Economical, Environmental, and Socio-politic</strong>), with 31 sub-criteria.</li> <li>Weights of criteria.</li> <li>Direction of criteria: &quot;max&quot; if the sub-criterion&nbsp;needs&nbsp;to be maximized (&quot;bigger is better&rdquo;) and &quot;min&quot; if it needs to be&nbsp;minimized (&rdquo;smaller is better&rdquo;).</li> </ul> <p>The dataset is used in the following paper:</p> <p><em>Ezbakhe, F. and P&eacute;rez-Foguet, A. (2019)&nbsp;Decision analysis for sustainable development: the case of renewable energy planning under uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research.&nbsp;</em><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.02.037">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.02.037</a></p>