Using the PROMETHEE and TOPSIS multi-criteria decision making methods to evaluate optimal generation

Abstract

In the present day scenario the energy demand is going on increasing. It is expensive to import electricity from the generation far from load centers because of the cost of power loss. It is therefore more economical to use electricity generated by local distributed generators. In this paper power generation from wind, Combined Heat Power (CHP) and utility for a complete day is considered. This paper proposes a method to evaluate the optimal generation of a particular day considering Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE) and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) multi-criteria decision making technique. The results obtained by the multi-criteria evaluation using the presented method, gives the possibility of identification and evaluation of the optimal generation in a particular day.