A GIS-Based Multidimensional Evaluation Method for Solar Energy Potential in Shanxi Province, China
Liang Cui (20161026@sxufe.edu.cn),
Junrui Zhang,
Yongyong Su and
Siyuan Li
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Liang Cui: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
Junrui Zhang: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
Yongyong Su: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
Siyuan Li: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan 030006, China
Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-18
Abstract:
Solar energy is considered one of the most hopeful alternative sources to avoiding dependence on fossil fuels, and it does not cause any air pollution. GIS-based solar energy potential evaluation is mainly focused on regional scale; further, more solar energy potential evaluation with building scale is calculated through observation data and mathematical model. Therefore, in this paper, a GIS-based joint solar energy potential evaluation is developed to evaluate the distributed photovoltaic potential and centralized photovoltaic potential. Shanxi province in China, which has abundant coal resources, is used as the study area. The raster grid scale is used as the minimum research scale, which could not only deal with the distributed photovoltaic potential but could also calculate the centralized photovoltaic potential. The obtained results indicate that the developed method could effectively deal with problems associated with the distributed photovoltaic potential and centralized photovoltaic potential in the raster grid scale.
Keywords: solar energy; potential; GIS; MCDA; Shanxi province (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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