Covid-19 Pandemisi Öncesi ve Sırasındaki Enerji Tüketim Trendleri: Entropi Tabanlı PROMETHEE Analizi

Renewable energy sources have a crucial role in decreasing reliance on fossil fuels. In the literature, there is a need for new studies on the evaluation of energy use preferences and policies of countries before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to fill this gap, the study aimed to compare and evaluate 36 countries through Entropy-based PROMETHEE methods using TheGlobalEconomy.com indicators. As a result of Entropy, while the criterion with the highest importance is the gasoline consumption criterion with a value of 14.12%, the criterion that follows these criteria in order are the fossil fuels electricity generation (12.25%); coal consumption (11.8%); coal imports (10.52%); renewable power generation (10.29%). According to the PROMETHEE results, Sweden ranked first and is a good performer in almost all the indicators. In addition, the first 10 countries in the ranking are the European Union countries. The novelty of the study is that it provides an important review of the current literature on energy and that 36 countries with significant economic power from almost all continents are evaluated in terms of energy consumption and preferences at both pre-pandemic and pandemic conditions.