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Progress in Renewable Energy Technologies: Innovation Potential in Latvia
| Nr. | Chapter | Page. |
| INTRODUCTION | 13 | |
| 1. | RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION | 15 |
| 1.1. | Solar energy | 15 |
| 1.2. | Wind energy | 16 |
| 1.3. | Hydropower energy | 18 |
| 1.4. | Biofuel energy | 18 |
| 2. | RENEWABLE ENERGY REVIEW IN EUROPE | 23 |
| 2.1. | Renewable energy technologies review in Northern Europe | 28 |
| 2.2. | Renewable energy technologies review in Latvia | 32 |
| 3. | MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING TOWARDS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT | 44 |
| 4. | METHODOLOGY | 48 |
| 4.1. | Application of the TOPSIS method in Matlab software | 52 |
| 5. | RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 60 |
| CONCLUSIONS | 71 | |
| RECOMMENDATIONS | 73 | |
| REFERENCES | 75 | |
| LIST OF PUBLICATIONS | 80 | |
| LIST OF CONFERENCES | 81 |
CONCLUSIONS
1. There is a general consensus that proposed statement (hypothesis) about the development of MCDM for analysing RET progress and innovation potential in Latvia is approved and used methodology is accepted as convenient.
2. A comprehensive RET evaluation implied four dimensions – technical, economic,
environmental and social. The research was defined as the MCDM problem, where the question was to decide which RET have the highest potential of development. The extensive literature review conducted shows that MCDM is one of the most used tools for sustainable development evaluation issues.
3. As results show, the dominant countries in shares of renewable energy (Sweden, Finland) have the same RET development trends as Latvia. The leading countries have large resources of hydropower, which represents the high share of HPP in electricity production (Finland –
43,4%, Sweden – 58,5%, Latvia – 87,0%).
4. The result analysis carried out that Latvia should follow the example of Sweden in electricity production and implement WPP installations. Denmark, Lithuania and Sweden also shows high shares of WPP in electricity production – Denmark has 70,9% share of WPP, Lithuania – 62,0% and Poland – 71,5%. Latvia is considered as one of the most efficient locations for
scaling up wind deployment. Supporting wind-based electricity generation presents
profitable markets for investors.
5. For Latvia, bio-energy CHP installations should be considered as sufficiently developed RET. Extra research on the development of low-quality biomass (for example, logging residues) usage is recommended. Bio-energy technologies need to be developed to assess
the EU 2020 targets.
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The Master`s Thesis describes a methodology of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) for analysing renewable energy technologies (RET) progress and innovation potential in Latvia that helps to adapt innovative technologies in the best place possible in order to minimize environmental and climate impacts to achieve EU targets and objectives. The Master`s Thesis reviews solutions, to identify possibilities on how to implement and deploy RET in Latvia. At the beginning of the Master`s Thesis are described and updated information on renewable energy sources and RET, subsequently, deeper research of current situation of RET development in Latvia and Northern Europe counties is done, as well as included a brief review about widely used solutions of MCDM approaches and methods, where energy system planning issues are investigated. In the experimental part of the study is described the applied algorithm in details. Additionally, represented the way in which the used methodology is interpreted to implement it as a Matlab function code according to MCDM method TOPSIS. Experimental results are extracted in Excel workbook. Each worksheet is comprehensively described for better understanding of the methodology. In the end of the Master`s Thesis the results of the practical part are processed and analysed, as well as conclusion and improvements offered for further RET innovation potential progress in Latvia
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