A GIS-based multi-criteria model for offshore wind energy power plants site selection in both sides of the Aegean Sea
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A GIS-based multi-criteria model for offshore wind energy power plants site selection in both sides of the Aegean Sea Emre Tercan & Serkan Tapkın & Dionysis Latinopoulos & Mehmet Ali Dereli & Anastasis Tsiropoulos & Muhammet Fatih Ak
Received: 26 April 2020 / Accepted: 10 September 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Location selection for offshore wind farms is a major challenge for renewable energy policy, marine spatial planning, and environmental conservation. This selection constitutes a multi-criteria decision-making problem, through which parameters like wind velocity, water depth, shorelines, fishing areas, shipping routes,
E. Tercan (*) Department of Survey, Project and Environment, General Directorate of Highways, 13th Region, 07090 Antalya, Turkey e-mail: [email protected] S. Tapkın Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Antalya Bilim University, 07190 Antalya, Turkey e-mail: [email protected] D. Latinopoulos Faculty of Engineering, School of Spatial Planning and Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece e-mail: [email protected]
environmental protection areas, transportation, and military zones should be jointly investigated. The aim of the present study was thus to develop an integrated methodology for assessing the siting of bottom-fixed offshore wind farms in two different countries (with different legal, political, and socio/economic characteristics). Our methodology combined multi-criteria decisionmaking methods and geographical information systems and was implemented in Cyclades (Greece) and in the sea area of İzmir region (Turkey). Experts used fuzzy sets and linguistic terms to achieve more consistent and independent rankings and results. In the Turkish region, the results showed that 519 km2 (10.23%) of the study area is suitable for offshore wind farms, while in the Greek region, only 289 km2 (3.22%) of the study area was found to be suitable. This spatial suitability analysis may contribute to provide some useful recommendations for the spatial marine planning at the regional scale, as well as for the preliminary assessment of new offshore wind farms in both countries.
M. A. Dereli Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Giresun University, 28200 Giresun, Turkey e-mail: [email protected]
Keywords Offshore wind energy . GIS . MCDM . Aegean Sea . Environmental conservation . Marine spatial planning
A. Tsiropoulos Business School, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Sussex House, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK e-mail: [email protected]
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M. F. Ak Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Antalya Bilim University, 07190 Antalya, Turkey e-mail: [email protected]
The future challenge associated with the fossil fuel depletion and the concerns regarding climate change and its possible effects have persuaded governments to adopt a more sustainable energy model (Bartsch et al.
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