Risks prioritization in decision making for wind energy investments using analytic network process (ANP)

The wind energy production grew up in the last years rapidly. In fact, the project management of these kind of initiatives has found, only recently, some practical references about the time, cost and quality management, stating some reference values (Fera, Macchiaroli, and Miranda, Project management for small wind turbines: An experimental survey on activities, lead times and risks, 2011) (Fera, Iannone, Macchiarli, and Miranda, 2012) (Fera, Iannone, Macchiaroli, Miranda, and Schiraldi, Project appraisal for small and medium size wind energy installation: the Italian energy policy effects, 2014). In these years a research question arose about the risks classification and prioritization of the different phases of wind energy initiatives. Aim of this paper is to present a classification and a prioritization of the risks during a project of installation for a wind energy initiative using the ANP.