To assess renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, in light of the limited supply of materials, researchers from Shenzhen University established novel hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) models that include circular economy principles, waste potential, and life cycle assessment (LCA).
The framework was applied in a case study of Chinese investment policies in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. These include Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.
“Nowadays, renewable energy is developing around the world, and some challenges are currently facing related to the scarcity of materials stemming from the limited availability of certain materials and growing waste generation,” research lead, Ali Hashemizadeh, told pv magazine. “So, in…
