Alternative to Oil and Gas: Review of Economic Benefits and Potential of Wind Power in Pakistan

Table 8

Sources of data for AHP.

Criteria	Subcriteria	Source
Technical	Capacity factor	EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2013
		Oil [4]
		Coal, Wind, Solar-NEPRA
	Efficiency	Euro Electric http://www.euroelectric.org
	Availability of Fuel (Local)	Assumed from data available in PEYB, 2012
	Availability of Fuel (Global)	[5]
Economic	Project Initial cost	Oil and Gas-Annual Energy Outlook 2011
		Wind, Solar coal-NEPRA http://www.nepra.org.pk
	Tariff	Oil and Gas-An overview of electricity sector in Pakistan 2011, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industries
		Wind, Solar Coal [48] http://www.nepra.org.pk
	Fuel cost	[4]
Environmental	External cost	http://www.ExternE.info
	Land requirement	[22]
	LLE	[4]
Social	Job creation	[20, 22, 29]
	Social acceptance	European wind energy association http://www.ewea.orh