Abstract
Renewable energy sources are considered as clean energy sources. They have a much lower environmental impact than other energy sources. Among the renewable energy sources, the wind is an important energy source. In many countries the wind power production is so popular and many alternative research techniques related to wind energy are applied. Wind energy comes to the forefront today due to the increasing population of countries and the increase in energy needs. In our country the studies about the renewable energy has evolved rapidly over the past decade. The cost of initial installation of Wind Energy Plants (WEP) is high and they can only be installed if certain conditions are met. Site selection for wind turbine installation is not a technical process only, also a complex process is necessary for involving social, economic, physical and environmental sanctions. Therefore, site selection of wind energy plants is a very complex spatial decision problem for decision makers. For the different site selection studies multi criteria evaluation methods are often used. In the study, potential WEP investment areas of Osmaniye province were determined by using, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and remote sensing. The criteria selected according to the general characteristics of the study area were combined with ArcGIS software using the weight values obtained with AHP and suitable areas for the WEP installation were determined. The land suitability index maps for the WEP siting is created in the ArcGIS program. The weighted Sum analysis of the Spatial Analyst Tool is used for this purpose. According to the results, 14.30% of the study area are suitable, 15.84% are moderate suitable and 69.86% are not suitable for wind energy plant siting
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