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A set of three, non-beneficial criteria, namely wind wakes, wind curtailment, and forced outages, were chosen to evaluate the best alternative. Three methods, (i) Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), (ii) the Technique for Order or Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and (iii) Complex Proportional Assessment (COPRAS), were applied to identify the best alternative, and the results revealed that for all three methods, borrowing deficit power from a neighboring wind farm is the best alternative. 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