Suitable municipalities for biomass energy use in Colombia based on a multicriteria analysis from a sustainable development perspective.

ABSTRACT: Using renewable energies is a global strategy to mitigate the acceleration of global warming generated by industrial processes and is a sustainable way to diversify the energy matrix in all countries. Biomass is a renewable energy source that produces biofuels and generates electricity and heat. The primary purpose of this work is to identify the municipalities in Colombia where agricultural, livestock, and urban residual biomass could be suitable for energy generation in a sustainable and renewable way. To that end, we carried out a Geostatistical Multi-Criteria Decision Methodology using Analytical Hierarchy Processes such as Rank-Sum and Weighted Linear Combination, as well as considering a set of sustainable development indicators applied to official Colombian data. Two scenarios are c

SUBMITTER: Calvo-Saad MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10522959 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature