Lack of discrimination power and poor weight dispersion remain major issues in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Since the initial multiple criteria DEA (MCDEA) model developed in the late 1990s, only goal programming approaches; that is, the GPDEA-CCR and GPDEA-BCC were introduced for solving...

The growing concern in the negative effects of fossil fuels on the environment has forced a more intensive use of Renewable Energy sources which are considered an important solution to the large atmospheric pollution caused from fossil fuel combustion. In the electricity-generating industry, due...