Evaluating optimal generation using different multi-criteria decision making methods

In the present day scenario the energy demand is going on increasing. It is expensive to import electricity from the generation far from load centers because of the cost of power loss. It is therefore more economical to use electricity generated by local distributed generators. In this paper power generation from wind, Combined Heat Power (CHP) and utility for a complete day is considered. This paper proposes different methods to evaluate the optimal generation of a particular day. The methods considered are Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method, Weighted Product (WP) Method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) multi-criteria decision making technique. The results obtained by the multi-criteria evaluation using the presented method, gives the possibility of identification and evaluation of the optimal generation in a particular day.