Published In

Proceedings of PICMET '15: Management of the Technology Age

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-2-2015

Subjects

Technology assessment -- Decision making, Technology assessment -- Case studies, Technology transfer -- Decision making, Strategic planning, Decision making -- Mathematical models, Wind power plants

Abstract

This paper primarily serves two purposes: first, it looks to develop a methodology that takes scenarios and certain hard-to-measure intangibles such as politics, social impact, and even religion; as well as more tangible and measurable variables such as environmental impacts, cost and types of materials, storage and wind turbine technologies, to name a few, that then could be used as input to a decision-making model on where to build a wind farm. The hierarchical decision model (HDM) then analyzes these variables, based on an independent judging panel, in order to come up with a recommendation for the best site on where to build the wind farm. Second, the preliminary discussion of this paper serves as a prototype of developing a methodology that might one day serve as part of an overall comprehensive energy policy for the State of Oregon.

Description

This is the publisher's final pdf. Copyright © 2015 by PICMET. Paper delivered at Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2015.

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2015.7273169

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16771

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