Tools for Measuring Energy Sustainability: A Comparative Review
Rafael Ninno Muniz,
Stéfano Frizzo Stefenon,
William Gouvêa Buratto,
Ademir Nied,
Luiz Henrique Meyer,
Erlon Cristian Finardi,
Ricardo Marino Kühl,
José Alberto Silva de Sá,
Brigida Ramati Pereira da Rocha
Affiliations
Rafael Ninno Muniz
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, Brazil
Stéfano Frizzo Stefenon
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Joinville 89219-710, Brazil
William Gouvêa Buratto
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Joinville 89219-710, Brazil
Ademir Nied
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Joinville 89219-710, Brazil
Luiz Henrique Meyer
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, Regional University of Blumenau (FURB), Electrical Engineering, Blumenau 89030-000, Brazil
Erlon Cristian Finardi
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, 88040-900, Brazil
Ricardo Marino Kühl
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, Brazil
José Alberto Silva de Sá
Center of Natural Sciences and Technology, Pará State University (UEPA), Belém 66095-100, Brazil
Brigida Ramati Pereira da Rocha
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém 66075-110, Brazil
This paper is intended to perform a comparative and qualitative review among eight tools to measure energy sustainability. Therefore, it was necessary to create a theoretical and conceptual framework based on four criterias of selection and six categories of comparison. In this work, the conceptual bases that supported the research and the methodology created to carry out the comparative review will be presented. This analysis was based on the intrinsic concepts of energy sustainability of each of the reviewed tools with a critical qualitative analysis. Some conclusions shown through the conceptual framework developed that it was possible to apply an innovative methodology to qualitatively compare different tools to measure sustainability. The importance of this reflects the difficulty of conceptualizing the subjectivity of sustainable development, as shown throughout the paper, where it is often not possible to obtain a measurable result since the measured phenomenon is too complex to reduce it to a numerical value.
