Wind farm land suitability indexing using multi-criteria analysis

Renewable Energy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 80-87

  Al Yahyai, Sultan ^a   Charabi, Yassine ^a   Gastli, Adel ^a   Al Badi, Abdullah ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

AHP OWA; Indexing; Land suitability; Multi criteria; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; AHP-OWA; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ENERGY DEMANDS; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND SUITABILITY; LINGUISTIC QUANTIFIERS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NATURAL RESERVES; SAND DUNES; SELECTION CRITERIA; TERRAIN SLOPE; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; URBAN AREAS; WIND FARM; WIND POWER DENSITY;

AIRFOILS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WIND POWER;

DECISION MAKING; DUNE; GIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NATURE RESERVE; TERRAIN; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

EID: 84858276964     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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