MULTI CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS OF WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL IN NORTH PART OF IRAN

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In this study Thechno-Environmental feasibility analysis for prospective wind farms have been conducted for North part of Iran. A Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) model has been built in ArcGIS software to obtain the most appropriate locations for wind turbines installation. In this step the most important and effective technical and environmental criteria have been applied on study area to eliminate the non-allowed areas for wind farms construction. Afterward, the obtained suitable areas have been classified based on International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) turbine classes using wind speed map at case study.