Prioritizing Alternatives for Citizen-Participatory Renewable Energy Projects

Abstract

This research proposes a new evaluation method that prioritizes alternatives for citizen-participatory renewable energy projects, with a focus on the analytic hierarchy process through a questionnaire survey for conjoint analysis. The study’s evaluation method derives evaluation values and prioritizes alternatives within the profile based on the subject’s partial preferences. We applied the method to evaluate renewable energy projects as an example, confirming that it can calculate the quantitative values for all project alternatives, indirectly compare project profiles from an external perspective, and prioritize all project alternatives. This method is simple and easy to execute, and can be administered with spreadsheet software. It contributes to the administrative task of project proposal, easing the work load and providing the ability to derive more quantitative evaluation results from questionnaire surveys.