PMID- 34089160
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211012
LR  - 20211012
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 40
DP  - 2021 Oct
TI  - Determination of the suitable sites for constructing solar photovoltaic (PV) 
      power plants in Kayseri, Turkey using GIS-based ranking and AHP methods.
PG  - 57232-57247
LID - 10.1007/s11356-021-14622-x [doi]
AB  - The fact that traditional energy sources have limited reserves and have a 
      negative impact on the environment increases the demand for renewable energy 
      sources. Environmental, economic, and sustainability concerns have led 
      researchers, investors, and policy makers to seek the potential of renewable 
      energy sources. Suitable site selection for new-generation renewable resources is 
      vital in large-scale projects. In this paper, geographic information systems and 
      multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods were integrated to exploit and 
      construct the best location for solar PV power plants in Kayseri, Turkey. Three 
      main, twelve subcriteria, and their indicators related to the study area were 
      determined. The rank-based (i.e., rank sum, rank reciprocal weights, and rank 
      order centroid weights) and analytical hierarchical process (AHP) MCDM methods 
      were used to determine the weights of the criteria. Thirty-three existing solar 
      PV power plants were used to verify the success of MCDM methods. Four MCDM 
      methods yielded effective results according to the proposed criteria, and most of 
      the existing solar PV power plants match the convenient regions on the 
      suitability map provided by geographic information systems-based rank reciprocal 
      method. In addition, according to the experimental study, Sariz, Tomarza, and 
      Incesu districts of Kayseri were the most suitable sites.
CI  - (c) 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, 
      part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Gunen, Mehmet Akif
AU  - Gunen MA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5164-375X
AD  - Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Erciyes University, 
      38039, Kayseri, Turkey. akif@erciyes.edu.tr.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210604
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
SB  - IM
MH  - Energy-Generating Resources
MH  - *Geographic Information Systems
MH  - Power Plants
MH  - *Solar Energy
MH  - Turkey
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - AHP
OT  - Geographic information system
OT  - Multicriteria decision making
OT  - Photovoltaic power plants
OT  - Rank-based method
OT  - Site selection
EDAT- 2021/06/06 06:00
MHDA- 2021/10/13 06:00
CRDT- 2021/06/05 06:04
PHST- 2021/02/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/05/25 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/06/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/10/13 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/06/05 06:04 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-14622-x [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-14622-x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Oct;28(40):57232-57247. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-021-14622-x. Epub 2021 Jun 4.