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countries, China leads the site suitability studies followed by Spain and India. As per
authors’ knowledge, this is an original contribution to review site suitability meth-
odologies, decision criteria, and restriction factors for the solar PV.
The limitation of this review is that the findings do not include textbooks and un-
published papers in solar PV site selection literature as well as is limited only to the
English journals. This work could be enhanced by considering real projects site
assessment and confirming their suitability under different decision criteria if
designed in multiple sites. Also, finding common decision criteria and restriction
for hybrid solar PV-wind would aid DMs for siting other RES or hybrid RES system
toward ensuring cost-effective and well-performing projects.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The first author would like to thank The Royal Commission of Jubail and YanbudJubail In-
dustrial College for the financial support under the scholarship program.

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