A GIS-AHP combination for the sites assessment of large-scale CSP plants with dry and wet cooling systems. Case study: Eastern Morocco

摘要

In this paper, we assessed the suitability of the Eastern region of Morocco to host large-scale Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants by combining Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). For this reason, a high spatial resolution GIS database is built using layers provided from different governmental organizations. Additionally, since the potential of the Direct Normal Irradiation (DNI) is the most important criterion for CSP site selection; a high-quality satellite solar map with a spatial resolution of 1 km(2)/pixel and twenty years of time coverage was used.