Alleviating Energy Poverty through Renewable Energy Technology: An Investigation Using a Best-Worst Method-Based Quality Function Deployment Approach with Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers

<table class="table-group" id="tab12"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="8"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"></td><td class="align_center">Initial investment (USD/kW)</td><td class="align_center">Annual operation and maintenance cost (USD/kW-year)</td><td class="align_center">Service life</td><td class="align_center">Efficiency/capacity factor (%)</td><td class="align_center">Job creation (jobs/MW)</td><td class="align_center">Land requirement (m<sup>2</sup>/GWh)</td><td class="align_center">Emission (kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq/MWh)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="8"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">PIS</td><td class="align_center">1200</td><td class="align_center">14</td><td class="align_center">35</td><td class="align_center">85</td><td class="align_center">22.9</td><td class="align_center">126</td><td class="align_center">2</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">NIS</td><td class="align_center">6820</td><td class="align_center">83</td><td class="align_center">20</td><td class="align_center">12</td><td class="align_center">7.8</td><td class="align_center">25000</td><td class="align_center">160</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="8"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>PIS and NIS for interval numbers.</div>

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Table 12: Alleviating Energy Poverty through Renewable Energy Technology: An Investigation Using a Best-Worst Method-Based Quality Function Deployment Approach with Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers 

Table 12 | Alleviating Energy Poverty through Renewable Energy Technology: An Investigation Using a Best-Worst Method-Based Quality Function Deployment Approach with Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers 