Evaluating of Turkey's renewable energy resources by AHP and Fuzzy Topsis methods

Nowadays, the primary resource that countries need for their economic and social development is energy. As a result of increasing population, global growth and industrialization; the need for energy has been increasing day by day. However, the fossil fuels used to meet in creasing demand for energy have been declining. Therefore, the importance of energy obtained from renewable energy resources as an alternative to fossil fuels has come to the fore as a compulsory need. It is inevitable for countries to benefit from clean, cheap and easily available energy resources in order to compete economically. This study has been led by multi-criteria decision-making methods in terms of the evaluation of all the criteria such as the availability of renewable energy resources in our country, initial installation cost, permanence and efficiency. One of the main resources of energy that is used in all areas of our daily lives such as industry, transportation, communication and agriculture is electricity. The need for electrical energy has also been increasing as a result of the growth in population, technological developments and industrialization. Therefore, selection of renewable energy resources to be used in Turkey's electricity production has become a multi-criteria decision-making problem. In the present study, especially energy and the resources of energy along with renewable energy resources and the status of renewable energy sources in Turkey have been discussed in respects of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (Fuzzy TOPSIS) which are multi-criteria decision-making methods. This study, which aims at the modeling and a comparative analysis of the mentioned methods, is expected to contribute to the decision of selection of the renewable energy sources in the production of electricity in Turkey.