ABSTRACT

This is a comprehensive book on how to make complex decisions on energy systems problems involving different technologies, environmental effects, costs, benefits, risks, and safety issues. Using Industrial and Systems Engineering techniques for decision-making in Energy Systems, the book provides the background knowledge and methods to incorporate multiple criteria involved in solving energy system problems. It offers methods, examples, and case studies illustrating applications. 

Decision-Making in Energy Systems discusses subjective as well as objective methods, approaches, and techniques taken from the systems and industrial engineering domain and puts them to use in solving energy systems problems. It uses an integrated approach by including effects of all technical, economic, environmental, and safety considerations as well as costs and risks. The book is specially designed for practicing engineers from industrial/systems engineering who work in energy systems engineering industries. 

Aimed at graduate students, researchers, and managers involved in various energy generating, distributing, and consuming companies, the book helps the reader to understand, evaluate, and decide on solutions to their energy-related problems.

part Section I|124 pages

Core Building Blocks

chapter 1|11 pages

Energy Systems, Problems, and Risks

chapter 2|33 pages

The Energy Picture

chapter 3|23 pages

Risk Assessment Methods

chapter 5|34 pages

Safety Engineering in Energy Systems

part Section II|71 pages

Measurements, Analysis, and Decision-Making

chapter 6|10 pages

Decision-Making Approaches

chapter 7|15 pages

Costs, Revenues, and Time Considerations

chapter 8|15 pages

Cost–Benefit Analysis

chapter 9|27 pages

Subjective Methods for Risk Assessment

part Section III|40 pages

Customers, Governments, and Future Changes

part Section IV|29 pages

Current Issues Facing the Energy Industries

chapter 13|7 pages

Smart Grid

chapter 14|9 pages

Electricity Storage Technologies

part Section V|81 pages

Applications of Methods: Examples and Illustrations

chapter 16|65 pages

Selection of Power Generation Alternatives

chapter 17|13 pages

Sensitivity and Monte Carlo Analyses