Decision system to support the practitioners in the wind farm design: A case study for Iran mainland

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

Volumn 16, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-10

  Shirgholami, Zahra ^a   Namdar Zangeneh, Soudabeh ^a   Bortolini, Marco ^b  

^a ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Multi criteria decision making; Wind energy; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; WIND; WIND POWER;

COMPLEX PROCESSES; CUT-IN WIND SPEED; DECISION SYSTEMS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; WIND CHARACTERISTICS;

WIND TURBINES;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DESIGN; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

IRAN;

EID: 84964443929     PISSN: 22131388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2016.04.004     Document Type: Article

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