Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
12 (2008) 790–806
An information decision support system
towards the formulation of a modern energy
companies’ environment
Konstantinos D. Patlitzianas
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, Anna Pappa, John Psarras
National Technical University of Athens, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Decision Support Systems Lab (EPU-NTUA), 9, Iroon Polytechniou Street, 15773, Athens, Greece
Received 29 September 2006; accepted 13 October 2006
Abstract
The development of the renewable energy sources (RES) and the energy efficiency (EE) is related
to the enhancement of the energy companies’ (energy producers by RES and energy services
companies—ESCOs) operational environment. The aim of this paper is to present an information
decision support system, which consists of an expert subsystem, as well as a multi criteria decision
making (MCDM) subsystem. The system supports the state toward the formulation of a modern
environment, since it incorporates the ‘‘new parameters’’ of the energy market, namely the
liberalization and the climate change. The system was successfully applied in the 13 accession
member states of the EU.
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Keywords: Energy companies’ environment; Decision support
Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791
2. A brief review of related systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792
2.1. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792
2.2. Expert systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792
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