The Comprehensive Evaluation Method for Residential Integrated Energy Systems Considering Thermal Comfort, Combining Both Subjective and Objective Approaches

Integrated energy systems (IES) can enhance the economy, environmental friendliness, and reliability of energy systems through the coordinated integration of multiple energy sources. Considering the comprehensive evaluation of multiple indicators in IES is of great significance for its implementation and application in practice. This paper proposes a combined subjective and objective comprehensive evaluation method that incorporates thermal comfort as a key indicator. By constructing an evaluation index system that includes economic efficiency, energy consumption, environmental protection, comfort, and reliability, the proposed method integrates Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with an improved entropy weight method for weight assignment. This approach ranks and analyzes various operation schemes of household integrated energy systems, providing users with meaningful guidance for selecting suitable application schemes tailored to their needs.