Territorial Planning for Photovoltaic Power Plants using an outranking approach and GIS

Autor: Inmaculada Marques-Perez, Inmaculada Guaita-Pradas, Aurea Gallego, Baldomero Segura
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Solar farms
AHP
020209 energy
Strategy and Management
Analytic hierarchy process
02 engineering and technology
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Solar energy
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
MCDM
0505 law
General Environmental Science
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Grid connection
05 social sciences
Environmental economics
Multiple-criteria decision analysis
GIS
ECONOMIA
SOCIOLOGIA Y POLITICA AGRARIA
Renewable energy
PROMETHE
08.- Fomentar el crecimiento económico sostenido
inclusivo y sostenible
el empleo pleno y productivo
y el trabajo decente para todos
Electricity generation
07.- Asegurar el acceso a energías asequibles
fiables
sostenibles y modernas para todos
Ranking
Greenhouse gas
Sustainability
050501 criminology
INGENIERIA CARTOGRAFICA
GEODESIA Y FOTOGRAMETRIA
Environmental science
ECONOMIA FINANCIERA Y CONTABILIDAD
business
Best sites
Zdroj: RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
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Popis: [EN] In 2015 the Paris Agreement set the goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to boost electricity generation coming from renewable energy sources, particularly solar energy. Finding areas that are suitable for solar farm development is crucial for the economic feasibility of these projects and the sustainable use of land. This research investigates how to identify optimal sites for the development of solar plants. A GIS-based approach combined with a Multi-Criteria Evaluation methodology is used to create a map which shows a ranking of areas with high potential for solar farm development. The GIS-based methodology is employed in the treatment of the legal and environmental criteria and sub-criteria to delimit the suitable locations. These locations are evaluated and ranked by order using the PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations). The importance of each criteria and sub-criteria is determined by an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In the Valencian Community the most discriminating criterion, when selecting the best locations, is the intensity of solar radiation, while temperature is the least discriminant. In terms of areas, the most suitable are located in the province of Alicante, while the least suitable are in the north of the Castellon province. It is also observed that the most appropriate locations are those that have greater solar radiation, and/or are at a lower altitude. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The authors acknowledge the support received from the Generalitat Valenciana through the research project "Sustainability of the Food Value Chain: From Production to Responsible Consumption" (Ref. AICO/2017/066).
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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