Geographic information system-based investment system for photovoltaic power plants location analysis in Turkey

Evaluation of GIS based Ranking and AHP methods in selecting the most suitable site: A case study in Kayseri, Turkey

“…In this study, the dataset obtained from the Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE) database was used. The criteria in (Tercan et al, 2020) In countries such as Turkey, which is located in an earthquake zone, distance from fault criteria should be taken into consideration. PV power plants close to a fault line will be seriously affected and lose their functionality as they have a rigid structure after an earthquake.…”

“…Since the railway passes through places where there are no roads, equipment supply can also be provided by railway (Hafeznia et al, 2017;Tercan et al, 2020). Kayseri transportation networks in the middle of Turkey's transportation network are well developed.…”

“…The weights of the criteria of social impact (land transportation, protection area), environmental / technical (land use / cover, distance from water surfaces), and security (distance from airport) were calculated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for solar park selection (Georgiou and Skarlatos, 2016). Tercan et al (Tercan et al, 2020), used rank based methods such as Rank sum weight (RS), inverse / reciprocal weights (RR), the rank order centroid (ROC) and the point allocation (PA) method to prepare a suitability map for solar PV power plants in Turkey's Mediterranean provinces. Electricity generation resource features (GHI, aspect, slope, elevation), essential features (land use / cover, faults, ground conditions), obligatory features (protected areas, residential areas), infrastructural and complementary features (power network, rivers, water bodies), and logistics / transportation network features (land transportation network, railway transportation network) criteria were used (Tercan et al, 2020).…”

“…Tercan et al (Tercan et al, 2020), used rank based methods such as Rank sum weight (RS), inverse / reciprocal weights (RR), the rank order centroid (ROC) and the point allocation (PA) method to prepare a suitability map for solar PV power plants in Turkey's Mediterranean provinces. Electricity generation resource features (GHI, aspect, slope, elevation), essential features (land use / cover, faults, ground conditions), obligatory features (protected areas, residential areas), infrastructural and complementary features (power network, rivers, water bodies), and logistics / transportation network features (land transportation network, railway transportation network) criteria were used (Tercan et al, 2020). In a study (Zoghi et al, 2017) conducted in Isfahan, Iran, Fuzzy Logic and AHP methods were used to compute the criteria weights of environmental (land use / cover, protected area, wetlands and water resource), geomorphological (elevation, slope, aspect), location (city center, power line, transportation network), and climatic (sunshine, cloudy days, GHI, dusty days, rainy and snowy days, humidity).…”

“…CORINE) database was used. The criteria in(Tercan et al, 2020) was taken into account for the classification of land use / cover types obtained from the CORINE database and for determining non-useful areas. The CORINE ID descriptions shown in Figure 6 are as follows: Mineral extraction sites (131), Construction sites (133), Non-irrigated arable land (211), Permanently irrigated land (212),Vineyards (221), Fruit trees and berry plantations (222), Pastures (231), Complex cultivation patterns (242), Land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation (243), Natural grasslands (321), Sclerophyllous vegetation (323), Transitional woodland-shrub (324), Bare rocks (332), Sparsely vegetated areas (333), Inland marshes (411), and Salt marshes (421).…”