Priority Decision of Small Hydropower Development using Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Kim, Gil Ho / Yi, Choong Sung / Yeo, Gyu Dong / Shim, Myung Pil AbstractRecently, it is expected that small hydropower (SHP) could potentially provide sufficient amounts of alternative energy in Korea where there is an abundance of potential sites and where social efforts are being made to reduce the emissions of green house gases. In the past, the resources survey for SHP development has been carried out using onsite surveys and paper maps, which incurred a great deal of time and cost. Furthermore, the tools for decision making such as determining development priorities or evaluating feasibility have been considered only economic aspect and focused on the performance characteristics of power generation. However, as the concept of sustainable development has been being advanced in recent years, especially focused on human-social, environmental and ecological in addition to economical sector; the consideration of these multiple criteria has become essential for sustainable SHP development. This study aims to propose the spatial multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for determining priorities among a number of locations on the planning stage of SHP development using AHP and GIS. The proposed methodology is applied for determining development priorities among the SHP locations in Cho River basin and this study presents the detailed spatial information data and the results of development priorities. As a fundamental work, this study will be beneficial to the future activation of SHP development and will help the decision making in evaluating the feasibility of SHP development.keywords : small hydropower, spatial MCDM, AHP, GIS, priority 요 지향후 소수력 자원은 풍부한 부존량과 더불어 사회적 온실가스 감축 노력을 바탕으로 대체에너지로서 성장잠재력이 클 것으로 전망된다. 과거에 소수력 개발을 위한 자원조사는 많은 시간과 비용이 드는 현장조사나 종이지도에 의존해 왔다. 그리고 타당성평가, 개발 우선순위 결정과 같은 의사결정시 발전 성능특성과 경제성에만 치중해 왔다. 그러나 최근 들어 경제적인 부문 뿐만 아니라 인문･사회, 환경, 생태적으로 지속가능한 개발이 더욱 강조되면서 이러한 다기준의 고려는 지속가능한 소수력 개발을 위하여 필수적인 것이 되었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 계층화분석