6.1.2.Step2:prioritizingthe finalized energy planning and management sustainability assessment indicators using fuzzy AHP
In this stage, the finalized energy planning and management sustainability assessment dimensions and indicators were sub- jected to further analysis. In which, we analyze them to know their priority. However, the prioritizing of the indicators could be subjective due to human involvement and fuzziness in data. Therefore, we used the fuzzy AHP technique in this work; other details are given in subsequent sections.
6.2. Develop the structural decision framework for the problem in question
Taking the experts’ opinions into account, a structural decision framework for assessing the sustainability in energy planning and management has been developed (please see Fig. 5). There are three distinct levels in this developed framework, namely, prioritizing the energy planning and management sustainability assessment indicators(atLevel-1), five dimensions of indicators (at Level-2) and twenty- five energy planning and management sustainability assessment in dicators(atLevel-3).
6.3. Develop the fuzzy pair wise evaluation matrix
In this step, the experts were asked to make pair wise comparisons for both the dimensions and the indicators. And, they have been provided linguistic expressions to finalize these pair wise comparisons. Next, we transform the expert’s linguistic views into a fuzzy evaluation matrix through classical TFNs. Hence, it provides the fuzzy pair wise assessment matrix for the dimen- sions of the indicators (please see Table 3).