The evaluation of renewable energy technologies for electricity generation in Turkey using intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS

Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-90

  Boran, F E ^a   Boran, Kurtuluş ^a   Menlik, T ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

intuitionistic fuzzy set; multi criteria decision making; renewable energy technologies; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GLOBAL ENERGY; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; TOPSIS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FUZZY SETS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TECHNOLOGY;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

EID: 80052841215     PISSN: 15567249     EISSN: 15567257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15567240903047483     Document Type: Article

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