A Model Proposal for Locating Wind Turbines

Total energy demand has increased all around the world in recent years, as a result of growing population and industrialization. Most of the existing sources to generate energy are fossil fuels and it is known that fossil fuels are scarce. In order to satisfy increasing energy demand, searches for new energy generation sources have been conducted and these searches are ended with the proposal of generation of energy by using renewable sources. Decision makers are facing with some important decision problems related to energy generation from renewable sources. In the scope of this study, site selection problem which is one of the most important problems related to renewable energy is considered. Site selection decision consists of many alternatives and many conflicting decision criteria. Due to the hesitance of decision makers in criteria evaluation, a decision making approach based on hesitant fuzzy sets is proposed for solution of the problem. Weights of evaluation criteria for locating wind turbines are obtained by using the proposed decision making approach.