Alternative Hybrid Solution Suggestions for Heating/Cooling in Turkey Using Data Envelopment Analysis and TOPSIS

Abstract

Developing alternative and hybrid solution proposals for increasing Primary Resource Factor (PRF) values of the provinces in Turkey will lead to an increase in the use of renewable energy resources. In this study, each renewable energy sources should be evaluated with data envelopment analysis, and the obtained solution proposals for each province are the research subjects. Suggestions have been made that overlapping alternative solutions should be transformed into the hybrid structures in Turkey. In addition, a similar study was conducted using TOPSIS method, and an answer was sought to the question of what hybrid structures should be in terms of economics. Analysis results have been mapped for on-site solutions with renewable energy sources in the solution of district heating/cooling problems within the framework of increasing energy prices. Prominent alternative solutions are listed as solar, wind and hydraulic.