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Table 2.1 Summary of Research Studies Tackling Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Site
Selectiondcont’d
Renewable
Energy
No. References Applied Technique Sources Grid Location
52 [56] GIS-Solar irradiation Solar-wind- None Salta,
biomass- Argentina
Hydro
53 [57] GIS-Solar irradiation PV On Andalusia,
Spain
54 [58] GIS-Solar irradiation Solar farms None Brazil

AHP, analytical hierarchy process; ELECTRE, elimination and choice translating reality; FAHP, fuzzy
analytical hierarchy process; GIS, geographical information system; TOPSIS, Technique for order
preference by similarity to ideal solution; WLC, weighted linear combination.

FIGURE 2.1
Utility-size solar photovoltaic (PV) site suitability studies across the globe.

AHP which developed by Saaty and Vargas [65] is the most MCDM tools applied
to facilitates the ranking of sites alternatives [4e11]. AHP grasps a combination of
qualitative and quantitative inputs. It has been popularly utilized by many authors in
several fields, including but is not limited to, renewable and conventional energy
planning, energy resources allocation, building energy management, and electricity
utility planning [62]. AHP has been criticized for rank reversal, which occurs when
adding or removing parameters that influence all other parameters to or from the
model [66]. To deal with inaccuracy, AHP employs a consistency test, and hence,