MCDM for renewable energy projects: criteria weighting with traditional entropy and novel hierarchy in combination with conventional and structured in blocks AHP approaches

Word economies face 2 interlinked and challenging environmental issues - climate control and dependence on traditional hydrocarbon energy sources The development of Renewable Energy (RE) technologies has to ensure the balance of several conflicting objectives with different factors. This paper examines the integration of traditional and novel methods for a subjective and objective definition of the weights of criteria for assessing RE investment projects and their modelling according to the different preferences of users and Decision Makers (DMs).