Instruments for policy formulation regarding new and renewable energy technologies

The decision to develop a technology must be aided by certain models that facilitate the transformation of subjective value judgments into decision criteria in addition to economic analysis to ensure sound decisions.This paper presents an integrated model built on two submodels to formulate a policy regarding the appropriateness of New and Renewable Energy technologies and strategies for their employment in Jordan.Furthermore,it presents the results of the application of the first sub model and discusses the results.5 refs., 2 figs., 2 tabs.(Author)