Large scale PV sites selection by combining GIS and Analytical Hierarchy Process. Case study: Eastern Morocco

Ahmed Alami Merrouni, Fakhreddine Elwali Elalaoui, Ahmed Mezrhab, Abdelhamid Mezrhab and Abdellatif Ghennioui

Renewable Energy, 2018, vol. 119, issue C, 863-873

Abstract: In this paper, a combination of Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been done to assess the capacity of Eastern Morocco to host large-scale Photovoltaic (PV) farms. For this reason, a GIS database with high spatial resolution has been built using data and layers provided from different governmental organizations. Besides, and in order to pursue high accuracy results, the Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI) solar map used in this study was derived from a high-quality satellite map with a spatial resolution of 1km/pixel and twenty years of time coverage.

Keywords: GIS; MCDM; Photovoltaic; Site suitability analysis; Morocco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2017.10.044

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