DESIGN OF MICROHYDRO POWER PLANT DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TOOL BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC ALGORITHM UNDER A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

PERSPECTIVE Alvin Sahroni, Electrical Engineering Department, Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta E-mail : nomad2805@gmail.com

ABSTRACT Based on Statistical review of energy 2008, it concludes that development country will consume more energy to increase their economic sectors. For example, china has spent 17.70% of energy, similar to America that consumed 20.40% of energy. Energy consuming still increase significantly by year and it will influence energy supply in certain countries although we know that energy nowadays still using fossil energy resources. Fossil energy resources are limited in the world reserves energy, and it will enforce us to use the energy in an efficient way. Microhydro is one form of Indonesias government regulation based on energy policies within the blueprint that suggests in 2005-2025, Indonesia should develop energy diversification in many sectors such as water resources. Micro-hydro power plants itself are one solution to provide electrical energy to the areas that are still isolated and have certain potential of water resources. However, in the design and construction of micro-hydro power plants, we needed a lot of consideration and intensive review of feasibility study according to the long term of Micro-hydro power plants development. UNDP and the Directorate General Electricity of Indonesia have made a study guide as a basis of Micro-hydro power plants development. Regarding to Indonesian cultural and social conditions, less of efficient and optimal feasibility studies, lack of information from the site planning are several obstacles that often faced in the development and designing of these micro-hydro power plants. This research produced a tool that can be a solution to help decision-makers in the development of Micro-hydro power plants under a sustainable development perspective. This tool also considerate several types of related factor and variables which contains sustainable development assessment such as Technical, Non-Technical, Social Economic, and Social environment. By using fuzzy logic algorithm to develop the tool in decision-making of micro hydro power plants, obtained good results where the results of the evaluation and review studies using the tool is about 95%. Therefore, the tool can be a support system for the government, consultant, academics, and practitioners when design and evaluate micro-hydro power plants.

Keywords: fuzzy logic, Micro-hydro, Sustainable, Renewable energy and Resources