EVALUACIÓN DE TECNOLOGÍAS FOTOVOLTAICAS EN UN PROCESO DE TOMA DE DECISIÓN MULTICRITERIO

Abstract

The high cost of solar energy is today the main reason why it is not introduced in a more widespread way. For this energy to present lower costs it is necessary to achieve continued and sustained growth of its market and at the same time, to keep a large effort in technological research aimed to progress towards much lower manufacturing costs through the learning curve of the technology. Solar photovoltaic technology, like any other technology has travelled a long way, based mainly on experience; and in this paper, we seek to assess the leading photovoltaic technologies presently available, using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods to do so. The aim of this paper is the study and analysis of the decision criteria when searching for the best technology for manufacturing photovoltaic cells, considering both quantitative criteria such as economic and technical factors and qualitative criteria such as social and environmental factors. Keywords: photovoltaic cell; manufacturing technology; multi-criteria decision making (MCDM); linguistic labels