Photovoltaic Plants Selection on an Insular Grid Using Multicriteria Outranking Tools: Application in Corsica Island (France)

Sustainable energy systems involve a multiplicity of stakes more or less conflicting. Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) offers a broad methodological framework in which the ELECTRE-based outranking approach is suitable for searching good compromise solutions. Particularly, the RUBIS methodology offers new tools that we have used successfully for photovoltaic (PV) plants selection aid in Corsica island, a real case study from a research agreement between the University of Corsica and the Agriculture Chamber of the Haute-Corse department. This chapter will focus on the following points: outranking approaches and the choice problematic in MCDA, the RUBIS method and the RUBIS D3 web server, the insular power grid of Corsica and the studied case, the main results and their robustness, a comparison with the ELECTRE IS method.

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