Innovative hybrid fuzzy MCDM techniques for adopting the appropriate renewable energy strategy

The future of clean sustainable energy depends on a strategic approach that aligns with national policies, ensuring sustainability and efficiency in renewable energy plans, and ensuring a smooth transition towards clean renewable energy. The study aims to evaluate primary SGE strategies in the UAE considering different factors and fill the gaps from previous studies and contribute by suggesting various strategies for utilizing clean renewable energy, analyzing their importance, suggesting evaluation tools, and presenting a model for adopting the appropriate renewable energy strategy, facilitating resource planning, utilization, and selection. It employs questionnaires, official data, and expert opinions to gather information. The study proposes strategies for utilizing clean renewable energy, analyzes them based on priorities, suggests evaluation tools, and explores UAE’s sustainable green energy use, introducing a cutting-edge model, for selection, analyzing technological solutions, potentials, challenges, and sustainability factors, aligning with UAE’s energy strategies. The model links the potential of SGE sources to adopted strategies to facilitate the future planning. The study presents various SGE strategies assessment methods, including MOORA, SAW, FMOORA, FSAW, combined MOORA-SAW, and FMOORAS-FSAW, and introduces an innovative hybrid MCDM technique for systematic decision-making. The outcomes of the research indicate that the MOORA-SAW integration method aligns with evaluators’ opinions, allowing future comparisons of sustainable and renewable green energy strategies. Open and integrated strategies are preferred when all criteria are balanced, as open strategy encourages innovation and links SGE resource management plans to corporate objectives, while integrated approach promotes regional collaboration. The study’s findings are valuable for decision-makers and countries interested in renewable energy initiatives, helping them select optimal strategies for future sustainable green energy developments.