Abstract
The need for electrical energy is increasing every day as a result of economic growth, rising population, and massive technical advancements all over the world. Though the world is moving at a faster pace to increase the production of electricity from renewable resources, coal is still the dominating fuel and is used in most of the power plants. Therefore, to achieve sustainable development, the performance of the power plants must be analysed and evaluated. In this paper, several important criteria such as plant load factor, auxiliary consumption, consumption of coal, net generation, and absolute emissions of CO2, from five distinct power generating stations under West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL), have been considered for evaluation. The Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (F-AHP) has been used to determine the weights of the various criteria, and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) has been used to rank the power plants on the basis of performance score.
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