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A multiobjective interactive approach to determine the optimal electricity mix in Andalucía (Spain)

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It seems clear that energy production is one of the key aspects of global sustainability. Economic, social and environmental aspects must be taken into account in order to design appropriate policies and thus, multicriteria analysis becomes a very adequate tool to deal with real problems of this kind. This study was directed by the Regional Ministry of Environment of Andalucía, who wanted to know the impact on the cost and on the environmental damage of a potential mix, more focused on renewable sources. Some authorities of the Ministry acted as decision maker in the interactive process. As a result, we have built a linear multiobjective model, in order to determine the optimal electrical mix for the Spanish region of Andalucía. Namely, we determine how much electricity power should be installed and produced, by each of the eight generation systems considered (lignite, other coals, oil, natural gas, nuclear, photovoltaic, wind and mini-hydro). Apart from the economic criterion (yearly cost), we have considered the vulnerability (in terms of percentage of imported fuel) as a strategic criterion, and 12 environmental criteria, which have been derived using the Life Cycle Analysis method on the different production systems. The interactive system PROMOIN was used to solve the multiobjective problem. PROMOIN allows the decision maker to choose how to give preference information to the system, and enables changing it anytime during the solution process, which gives more flexibility to the decision maker and increases the confidence of the decision maker in the final solution.

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  1. The fuels used in co-generation plants are natural gas (85%), fuel oil/gas oil (10%) and others (5%).

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This research was partially supported by the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Environment, by the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprises (PAI group SEJ-445 and P09-FQM-5001), and by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (Research Projects MTM2009-07646 and MTM2010-14992). The authors wish to express their gratitude to Prof. Carlos Romero, from the Technical University of Madrid, and to Dr. Pedro Linares, from the University Pontificia de Comillas (Madrid), for their very helpful comments and suggestions. Finally, the authors wish to thank the comments of two anonymous referees, who contributed to improve the quality of the paper.

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    J. M. Cabello, M. Luque, F. Miguel, A. B. Ruiz & F. Ruiz

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Cabello, J.M., Luque, M., Miguel, F. et al. A multiobjective interactive approach to determine the optimal electricity mix in Andalucía (Spain). TOP 22, 109–127 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11750-011-0236-2

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