Improved and enhanced stakeholders participation in reinforcement of electricity grid: multi-stakeholder and multi-criteria methodologies

The deliverable proposes an organic approach about the decisional process concerning the reinforcement of electricity transmission grid, following all the stages of the process, from the need definition to the permitting. The approach is based on the Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA), in order to take into account the needs and concerns of all the actors involved in process (e.g. planning authorities, TSOs, NGOs). The deliverable points out the role of MCA within the process and describes the characteristics that criteria, indicators and data should have to lead to an outcome representative of all the stakeholder needs. Furthermore, it is highlighted the importance of the environmental compensation in electric grid development projects. The document describes: (1) the decision making process in energy-grid projects as usually conducted and a proposal for an integrated tiering approach; (2) the role of MCA; (3) the criteria, indicators and data characteristics expected in a MCA approach; (4) how internalise the environmental compensation issue in the decisional process.