This paper determines a hybrid renewable energy source (HRESs) for a rural community using technical, economic, and techno-economic criteria. | A CRITIC-TOPSIS framework for hybrid renewable energy systems evaluation under techno-economic requirements Journal of Project Management 4 2019 109 126 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage A CRITIC-TOPSIS framework for hybrid renewable energy systems evaluation under techno- economic requirements . Babatundea and D. E. Ighravweb a Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Lagos Akoka Nigeria b Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Bells University of Technology Ota Nigeria CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The electricity generation policy is a strategic policy that drives development in a community. Received July 24 2018 Energy policies are often analyzed with the aim of generating a reliable and affordable electricity Received in revised format No- for a community. There is a high probability of achieving this aim when energy policy is com- vember 1 2018 bined with a community social technical economic and environmental needs. This paper deter- Accepted December 21 2018 Available online mines a hybrid renewable energy source HRESs for a rural community using technical eco- December 28 2018 nomic and techno-economic criteria. The selection process combines Criteria Importance Keywords Through Inter-criteria Correlation CRITIC and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity Techno-economic criteria to Ideal Solution TOPSIS as a solution method. This approach applicability was tested using Hybrid renewable energy system six HRESs under economic and technical criteria. Ten technical and nine economic criteria were CRITIC-TOPSIS simulated for the HRESs using HOMER. The results from the HOMER software show that WASPAS A5 PV wind battery and A6 PV battery had a renewable fraction of 1. The results obtained Simulation from the CRITIC method showed that the most important technical and economic criteria were diesel generator and total fuel cost respectively. .
