A multi attribute trade off and analysis framework for electric utility integrated resource planning

Abstract

The application of this framework to a 1988 Energy Laboratory study served to illustrate the flow of the analysis and the interrelationships among the various components of the framework. The trade off analysis stage - focusing on the trade off vectors and the pairwise dominance comparisons - is at the heart of the framework. These tools allow the participant to explore the set of trade offs that are available given the specified group of options and strategies, rather than trying to select a strategy that somehow maximizes a difficult to determine preference structure.