GIS-based photovoltaic solar farms site selection using ELECTRE-TRI: Evaluating the case for Torre Pacheco, Murcia, Southeast of Spain

Renewable Energy

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 478-494

  Sánchez Lozano, Juan M ^a   Henggeler Antunes, Carlos ^b,e   García Cascales, M Socorro ^c   Dias, Luis C ^d,e  

^a Centro Universitario de la Defensa de San Javier   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Decision support systems (DSS); ELECTRE TRI method; Geographic information systems (GIS); Interactive robustness analysis and parameters' inference for multicriteria sorting problems (IRIS); Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA); Solar farms

Indexed keywords

ALPHANUMERIC DATABASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS); ELECTRE-TRI METHOD; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; SITE SELECTION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUN; URBAN GROWTH;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CARTOGRAPHY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SITE SELECTION; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; TERRAIN; URBAN AREA;

MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN; TORRE PACHECO;

AVES;

EID: 84893136365     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.12.038     Document Type: Article

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