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The system's user may select any criterion relevant to the analysis in question. The ESIAPVN-
DS system helps to get automated and unbiased recommendations about the effect of
individual criteria. The recommendations are grounded on the values and weights of
specific criteria, as well as on comparisons of the objects. The ESIAPVN-DS system lets to
analyse individual criteria: not only to find the criteria with the biggest impact on the value,
but also to compute the chance to improve the criteria. It is then possible to make reasonable
decisions and choose for companies the development trends, innovations, optimisation of
economic indicators, reduction of hostility among stakeholder groups, or initiation of
amendments in the legislative basis. Figure 9 shows some recommendations suggested by the
ESIAPVN-DS system.
Fig. 9. Recommendations in the ESIAPVN-DS system
We shall use the criterion “legal regulation of activities” of the experimental geothermal
power plant to illustrate the potential of the recommender module. Experts gave 18 points
to this criterion of the experimental geothermal power plant (the worst legal regulation of
activities among all energy objects in question). Calculations show that the legal regulation
of activities may be improved by about 22 %. Such improvement of the legal regulation of
activities by 22 % would raise the market value of the geothermal power plant by 2 %. The
European Union strongly supports the expansion of alternative energy and encourages the
governments of member states to reorganise their legislative basis respectively, thus
creating favourable conditions for the expansion of alternative energy production sources.