Investigation of energy supply security of Macedonia and evaluation with quantitative Swot analysis

In this study, firstly fossil resources in the conventional sources were investigated for energy evaluation of Macedonia. The country has coal in the conventional sources and has imported the natural gas. It is observed that hydropower is in front of renewable energy sources in Macedonia. The state has wind, solar, biomass and geothermal potential and some ventures on this subject, but has not so much approaches yet. For the energy supply security for Macedonia SWOT Analysis applied and internal and external analysis were realized. In addition of it, TOWS Matrix generated also. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for twelve subjects that are determined by SWOT analysis and four main strategies which were find in the frame of TOWS matrix with S-O, W-O, S-T and W-T strategies and priority were determined of them.