A GIS-based interactive web decision support system for planning wind farms in Tuscany (Italy)

Mari, Riccardo; Bottai, Lorenzo; Busillo, C.; Calastrini, F.; Gozzini, Bernardo; Gualtieri, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2010.07.005

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“…All factors were selected in accordance with the Cypriot legislation for renewable energy sources (RES) sitting (Law 29(I), 2005) and in some cases, under the advice of the experts of the Ministry of Agriculture Natural Resources & Environment. In addition, European's Union policy (European Commission, 2014) and previous similar research in the renewable energy systems field (European Commission, 2014;Carrion et al, 2008;Katsaprakakis, 2012;Mari et al, 2011) are used to configure the list of parameters that are used.…”

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Optimal site selection for sitting a solar park using multi-criteria decision analysis and geographical information systems

Georgiou

Skarlatos

2016

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst.

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Abstract. Among the renewable power sources, solar power is rapidly becoming popular because it is inexhaustible, clean, and dependable. It has also become more efficient since the power conversion efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells has increased. Following these trends, solar power will become more affordable in years to come and considerable investments are to be expected. Despite the size of solar plants, the sitting procedure is a crucial factor for their efficiency and financial viability. Many aspects influence such a decision: legal, environmental, technical, and financial to name a few. This paper describes a general integrated framework to evaluate land suitability for the optimal placement of photovoltaic solar power plants, which is based on a combination of a geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing techniques, and multi-criteria decision-making methods.An application of the proposed framework for the Limassol district in Cyprus is further illustrated. The combination of a GIS and multi-criteria methods produces an excellent analysis tool that creates an extensive database of spatial and non-spatial data, which will be used to simplify problems as well as solve and promote the use of multiple criteria. A set of environmental, economic, social, and technical constrains, based on recent Cypriot legislation, European's Union policies, and expert advice, identifies the potential sites for solar park installation. The pairwise comparison method in the context of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied to estimate the criteria weights in order to establish their relative importance in site evaluation. In addition, four different methods to combine information layers and check their sensitivity were used. The first considered all the criteria as being equally important and assigned them equal weight, whereas the others grouped the criteria and graded them according to their objective perceived importance. The overall suitability of the study region for sitting solar parks is appraised through the summation rule.Strict application of the framework depicts 3.0 % of the study region scoring a best-suitability index for solar resource exploitation, hence minimizing the risk in a potential investment. However, using different weighting schemes for criteria, suitable areas may reach up to 83 % of the study region. The suggested methodological framework applied can be easily utilized by potential investors and renewable energy developers, through a front end web-based application with proper GUI for personalized weighting schemes.

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Optimal site selection for sitting a solar park using multi-criteria decision analysis and geographical information systems

Georgiou

Skarlatos

2016

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst.

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“…Soares et al (2011) similarly reported increasing bias between observed and mesoscale modelled wind fields as terrain complexity increases. It is worth noticing that the WRF-CALMET model chain on which this analysis is based (Mari et al, 2011) is a regional scale tool, thus neither designed nor adequate to resolve relatively complex orography structures at fine resolution, that lead to sharp variations of atmospheric properties within short distance. Also, as pointed out by Wang et al (2008), CALMET is a strictly area-dependent model, i.e.…”

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Aircraft wind measurements to assess a coupled WRF‐CALMET mesoscale system

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Meteorological Applications

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Long term aircraft observations of wind magnitude along an ∼250 km flight track in central Italy, performed over 1.5 years, are compared with the output of an existing mesoscale prognostic-diagnostic (WRF-CALMET) model chain aimed at assessing wind potential maps at regional scale. Aircraft measurements are used to evaluate model performance along spatial and temporal transects at moderate altitude from the ground (∼75 m), where observational frameworks are rarely available. Spatial wind analysis was capable of assessing overall model performance, while highlighting some limitations: the implemented models have better performance in inland areas with respect to coastal areas, while they are capable of representing diurnal variability in all regions correctly. Overall agreement is within 3% in the cold season and 16% in the warm season, while the greatest differences, above 30%, are obtained in coastal areas in the summer. The hypothesis supporting these results is that summer sea breeze regimes that develop consistently from the coast through the interior land are not entirely resolved from mesoscale modelling. Finally, the model performance and limitations related to complex orography are highlighted. This study demonstrates the added value that may derive from aircraft wind measurements as an additional observational framework for applied meteorology studies.

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“…Work has been done to map planning [3], marketing [4], retail [5], transportation [6], traffic [7], tourism [8], natural resources [9], real estate [10], agriculture [11] and healthcare [12] on the map and giving details about the facilities available there. On similar lines there are websites which give information about the colleges.…”

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Developing Gis Web-Portal for College Information System Using Free and Open Source Software

Gotey

Kale²

2017

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There are many courses available after completion of secondary education in India. These courses are provided by colleges which are affiliated to universities or these can be standalone institutes. The decision to choose from these courses depends on many criteria. These criteria include interest of student, job opportunities, cost, location etc. Based on the need of society, a web portal is designed that will help student to make good decision about their education.

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A GIS-based interactive web decision support system for planning wind farms in Tuscany (Italy)

Cited by 56 publications

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Optimal site selection for sitting a solar park using multi-criteria decision analysis and geographical information systems

Optimal site selection for sitting a solar park using multi-criteria decision analysis and geographical information systems

Aircraft wind measurements to assess a coupled WRF‐CALMET mesoscale system

Developing Gis Web-Portal for College Information System Using Free and Open Source Software

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