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Development of a best-worst method based MCDM approach for solar power plant location selection: an application to Tunceli, Turkey

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  • Yunus Emre Aykac
  • Melih Yucesan
  • Muhammet Gul

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Solar energy stands out with its increasing potential in the world. The decision to choose the location of a solar power plant is very important due to the investment return. In this study, a solar power plant site selection for Tunceli, Turkey is studied with a two-stage multi-criteria decision-making approach. In the first stage, the importance levels of the determined nine factors are obtained by the best-worst method (BWM). In the second stage, the most appropriate site is selected among the eight districts of Tunceli. As a result of the first stage, solar and fault line emerged as the most and least important factor, respectively. The second stage showed that Pertek district is the most suitable place. A comparative framework has been created including five different MCDM methods, which strengthens the final decision's accuracy and reveals whether each method's results are correlated.

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  • Yunus Emre Aykac & Melih Yucesan & Muhammet Gul, 2023. "Development of a best-worst method based MCDM approach for solar power plant location selection: an application to Tunceli, Turkey," International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 9(4), pages 322-350.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:9:y:2023:i:4:p:322-350
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