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Assessing the performance of biogas plants with multi-criteria and data envelopment analysis

Reinhard Madlener, +2 more
- 16 Sep 2009 - 
- Vol. 197, Iss: 3, pp 1084-1094
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An assessment of 41 agricultural biogas plants located in Austria to determine their relative performance in terms of economic, environmental, and social criteria and corresponding indicators suggests that MCDA, and the use of IRIS in particular, constitutes a useful approach that can be applied in a complementary way to DEA.
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This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 2009-09-16 and is currently open access. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data envelopment analysis & Multiple-criteria decision analysis.

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This paper performs an assessment of 41 agricultural biogas plants located in Austria to determine their relative performance in terms of economic, environmental, and social criteria and corresponding indicators. To be able to use IRIS while keeping the spirit behind DEA, the evaluation criteria were defined as different output/input efficiency ratios, and no information about criteria weights was introduced at the outset. The results suggest that MCDA, and the use of IRIS in particular, constitutes a useful approach that can be applied in a complementary way to