Energy Decisions and the Environment

A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods

By: Benjamin F. Hobbs, Peter Meier, B. F. Hobbs

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Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria. These trade-offs figure prominently in ongoing debates about how to meet growing energy demands and how to restructure the world's power industry. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods reviews practical tools for multicriteria (also called multiobjective) decision analysis that can be used to quantify trade-offs and contribute to more consistent, informed, and transparent decision making. These methods are designed to generate and effectively communicate information about trade-offs; to help people form, articulate, and apply value judgments in decision making; and to promote effective negotiation among stakeholders with competing interests. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods includes explanations of a wide range of methods, tutorial applications that readers can duplicate, a detailed review of energy-environment applications, and three in-depth case studies.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Tradeoffs in Utility Operations, Planning, and Policy Decisions	p. 2
How Can Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods Help?	p. 6
Why Not Monetize All Criteria?	p. 8
Scope of the Book	p. 11
The Application of MCDM Methods	p. 15
Attribute Selection and Definition (Step 1)	p. 17
Issues in Attribute Selection	p. 18
Risk as an Attribute	p. 25
Define Options (Step 2)	p. 27
Quantify Impacts (Step 3)	p. 30
An Example of an MCDM Method for Evaluating Proposals	p. 37
Defining Attributes: Biodiversity in Sri Lanka	p. 39
Screening and Tradeoff Analysis	p. 45
Screening (Step 4)	p. 48
Analyzing Tradeoff Plots (Step 5)	p. 51
Dominance Analysis (Step 6)	p. 52
Generating Tradeoff Curves	p. 57
Other Tradeoff Display Methods	p. 60
Screening Resources at BC Hydro by Dominance Analysis	p. 61
Tradeoff analysis for the Three-Dimensional Case	p. 63
Scaling, Weighting, and Amalgamation	p. 67
Value Scaling (Step 7)	p. 67
Assessing Value Functions	p. 69
Utility Functions	p. 72
Weighting Methods (Step 8)	p. 75
Equal Weights	p. 76
Observer Derived Weights	p. 76
Direct Weighting	p. 77
The Analytic Hierarchy Process	p. 78
Swing Weights	p. 80
Indifference Tradeoff Weights	p. 81
Gamble Method	p. 81
Desirable Properties of Weights	p. 82
Weighting Conclusions	p. 83
Amalgamation Methods (Step 9)	p. 85
Additive Value Function	p. 86
Goal Programming	p. 87
Power Law	p. 89
Multiplicative and Additive Utility Functions	p. 90
Using Additive Value Functions, Goal Programming, Power Law and Utility Functions for Screening	p. 91
Outranking Methods: ELECTRE I	p. 91
Successive Elimination	p. 93
Amalgamation Conclusions	p. 95
Resolving Differences (Step 10)	p. 99
Resolving Differences Among Methods	p. 100
Examples of Disagreements Among Methods	p. 100
Resolving Differences Among Methods for Specific Individuals	p. 102
Resolving Differences Among Individuals	p. 105
An Illustrative Numerical Example	p. 111
Exclusionary Screening (Step 4)	p. 112
Dominance Analysis (Step 6)	p. 112
Scaling, Weighting, and Amalgamation (Steps 7-9)	p. 112
Indifference Tradeoff Weighting (Step 8)	p. 114
AHP Weighting (Step 8)	p. 115
Goal Programming Amalgamation (Step 9)	p. 116
Single and Multiattribute Utility Functions (Steps 7-9)	p. 117
Amalgamation by ELECTRE (Step 9)	p. 119
Successive Elimination (Step 9)	p. 120
A Review of MCDM Applications in Energy Planning and Policy	p. 123
MCDM Methods in Environmental Impact Assessment	p. 124
Puget Sound Area Reliability Plan EIS: A Greyscale Impact Matrix	p. 124
A US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Approach: Additive Value Functions	p. 126
MCDM Methods in Resource Bidding Systems	p. 128
MCDM Methods in Transmission and Distribution System Planning	p. 130
Analyzing Cost-Reliability Tradeoffs	p. 131
Transmission Line Routing	p. 133
MCDM Methods in Supply Capacity Planning	p. 136
Ranking Discrete Supply Plans	p. 136
Multiple Criteria Analysis of Supply Plans Using Linear and Dynamic Programming	p. 139
MCDM Methods in Resource Planning	p. 142
MCDM Applications in Generation System Operations	p. 144
Using MCDM to Measure Corporate Environmental Performance	p. 146
MCDM Methods in National Energy Policy	p. 149
Power Sector Applications of MCDM Methods in Developing Countries	p. 151
Power Plant Siting	p. 151
Incorporating Environmental Concerns in Power Sector Planning	p. 154
MCDM at BC Hydro: The 1995 Plan	p. 159
Structuring the Process	p. 159
Objectives and Attributes (Step 1)	p. 162
Defining the Alternatives (Step 2)	p. 166
Portfolio Analysis	p. 170
Tradeoff Display (Step 5) and Evaluation of Portfolios (Steps 8,9)	p. 172
Getting to Consens (Step 10)	p. 175
Multi-Method MCDM at BC Gas	p. 179
Designing a Multi-method MCDM-Based Process	p. 180
Using MCDM Methods to Screen DSM Programs	p. 182
Application	p. 183
Stakeholder Evaluation of the Process and Conclusion	p. 202
MCDM Experiments at Seattle City Light	p. 207
Introduction	p. 207
Questions Addressed	p. 208
Resource Planning at Seattle City Light	p. 214
Results of Method Comparisons	p. 219
Conclusions	p. 228
Closing Remarks	p. 235
References	p. 239
Index	p. 255
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