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 3

Renewable energy plant characteristics [65, 67–69].

	Economical			Technical			Social		Environment
	Initial investment (USD/kW)	Annual operation and maintenance cost (USD/kW-year)	Service life	Technology maturity	Efficiency/capacity factor (%)	Reliability	Job creation (jobs/MW)	Social impact	Land requirement (m^2/GWh)	Emission (kg CO2-eq/MWh)
	TR11	TR12	TR13	TR21	TR22	TR23	TR31	TR32	TR41	TR42
Wind energy	1200-2100	46	20	High	20-40	Nondispatchable	12.2	Minor	1030-2780	5-35
Solar energy	2700-6800	14-69	20	Medium	12-21	Nondispatchable	20.2	Medium	164-552	40-160
Direct combustion	1880-4260	84	20	High	85	Dispatchable	13.2	Minor	193	8.5-118
CHP	3550-6820	54-86	25	Medium	63-74	Dispatchable	13.2	Minor	175	25-130
Gasification	2140-5700	65-71	20-25	Medium	80	Dispatchable	13.2	Minor	126	17-117
Hydropower	1400-4150	25-75	35	High	17-59	Dispatchable	7.8-22.9	Medium	2350-25000	2-40
Type	Cost	Cost	Benefit	Benefit	Benefit	Benefit	Benefit	Benefit	Cost	Cost