Evaluation of Criteria for Developing Renewable Energy Sources in India

The adoption of renewable energy to fulfill the required need of energy will be the best solution to overcome the issue of global warming and climate changes, but the availability of renewable energy is restricted to the geography of a particular location. Hence, the selection of a particular renewable energy sources is a challenging task which requires rigorous efforts. The aim of this research is to prioritize the available criteria for the selection of appropriate renewable energy sources in India. The Shannon entropy weighing method is adopted in this study to build a tool to help in selecting best available renewable energy sources. The result shows that the financial perspective is having highest relative importance followed by technical perspective, environmental perspective, and social perspective. Also, CO₂ emission followed by electric cost, land requirement, operation and maintenance cost, capacity factor, useful life, capital cost, efficiency, employment, and installed grid power capacity are the prioritized criteria in descending order of their weights obtained.