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ABSTRACT
Site selection for wind power plant (WPP) installation is a complex process that includes not only technical requirements but also physical, economic, social, and environmental sanctions. This study was carried out to determine optimal sites for WPP installation within the borders of Çanakkale province using spatial multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Within the scope of the study, sites with a high level of suitability where a WPP can be established were determined by the geographic information system (GIS) and the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The results were examined in two ways: by excluding and not excluding forest areas. After creating the two separate suitability maps, the annual electrical power generation potential (GP) map of the study area was generated. The results show that for the case where the forest areas were excluded, 67.26% of the study area is restricted and 29.94% is highly suitable, and for the case where the forest areas were not excluded, 58.94% is restricted and 36.25% is highly suitable. The total GP value of the highly suitable sites is 104,061.61 GWh/year. When the locations of existing WPPs were examined for control purposes, it was seen that the majority of them were located inside the areas with high suitability and outside the non-installable areas, but some of them were established in forested areas.
Acknowledgements
This manuscript was partly based on the MSc thesis of the first author, Gökhan Can.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Data availability statement
The transmission lines and locations of existing WPPs data are not publicly available and they are forbidden to share due to legal reasons. The Digital Surface Model (ASTER GDEM) data is available at https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search. Wind capacity data is available at https://globalwindatlas.info/en/download/maps-country-and-region. Active faults data is available at http://yerbilimleri.mta.gov.tr/anasayfa.aspx. Other vector data are available at https://www.geofabrik.de/data/.
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Notes on contributors
Gökhan Can
Gökhan Can Literature review, Data collection, AHP calculation, Spatial analyses.
Canan Kocabaldır
Canan Kocabaldır Writing – original draft, Visualization, Recent literature review, GP examination.
Mehmet Ali Yücel
Mehmet Ali Yücel Visualization, Writing – review & editing, Supervision.