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able development may face difficulties
in implementation according to the current indicators of the country.
In the social dimension there is a
grave difference of values in the instiUnited States (A)
Mozambique (C)
tutional criterion of the countries with
6
a relatively low average value. The
4
exceptions are Argentina and Ecuador
Israel
(A)
Mexico (C)
2
mainly presenting comprehensive and
0
detailed consideration of the social
Japan (A)
Ecuador (C)
dimension in their energy plans. In
general, the performance achieved by
most countries in the social dimenArgentina
(B)
Bolivia (C)
sion of non-institutional analysis is
similar, Fig. 2.
Venezuela (B)
South Korea (B)
However, the values in the nonSpain (B)
institutional analysis were practically
Institutional
Non Institutional
constant with a relatively high average compared to other dimensions.
In this criterion, the average of the
Figure 2. Social analysis (global).
groups A and B was superior in performance compared to the global
averages. While countries analyzed
Political Dimension
presented conditions to implement
Germany (A)
10
an integrated system with a high
Australia (A)
Paraguay (C)
8
social planning factor, according to
United States (A)
Mozambique (C)
the non-institutional criteria, the pre6
ferred plans emphasized the social
4
factor only scantly.
Israel
(A)
Mexico (C)
2
In the political institutional analysis
0
(Fig. 3), it is observed that most plans
Japan (A)
Ecuador (C)
have relatively low values, except for
Israel and South Korea. These data
indicate that most countries still do not
Argentina
(B)
Bolivia (C)
incorporate comprehensive political
considerations in their preferred plans
Venezuela (B)
South Korea (B)
contributing to an integrated planning.
Spain (B)
In the non-institutional analysis,
Institutional
Non Institutional
the majority are in the range of high
values, which makes meaningful the
Figure 3. Institutional political analysis (global).
average of that analysis. The average
non-institutional group performance
According to Fig. 1, non-institutional emphasis on the
in the political dimension in group A was greatly infeenvironmental dimension by countries in group A and
rior to the world average, the performance of group B
B is quite similar, and the average value is substantially
resembles the world average. The performance shown
equal to the global average value. However, distributions of
by countries in Group C in the non- institutional political
valuation in non-institutional analysis of Mozambique and
analysis showed similar values. These results indicate
Paraguay extrapolate the average due to the percentage
that these countries have the real political conditions to
of installed capacity from renewable sources (hydroelecintroduce a method that incorporates political criteria in
tric plants). In addition, the three countries that obtained
their preferred plans to integrate with the other dimenhigher values in the institutional criterion (Argentina, Spain,
sions of planning.
and Ecuador) exceeded the values of non-institutional criIn institutional techno-economic analysis (Fig. 4), the
teria in that same dimension. This indicates that for these
values of groups A and C were remarkably close. Group B
countries, environmental planning with a focus on sustainhas a lower average compared to the world, however with
Environmental Dimension
Germany (A)
10
Australia (A)
Paraguay (C)
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