Multicriteria Decision Making Model for HPP Alternative Selection

The development and implementation of new hydropower plant projects as a way of increasing the share of electricity generation from renewable energy sources is an imperative for the energy sector. Electricity that will be produced in new hydro power plants should be the basis for sustainable development, which is conditioned by the balance between economic, technical, social and environmental demands. Therefore, in addressing the problem of making choice on technical solution variants for hydropower plant, these requirements should be considered. Since the choice of optimal variants is influenced by various factors (criteria), mostly conflicting with each other, this problem is a matter of multicriteria decision making (MCDM). This paper presents a model for multictiteria decision making on technical solution for hydro power plant from the Pareto set of alternatives. An analytic hierarchical process was applied, taking into account quantitative and qualitative criteria. The model was tested on a specific example.