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Among the renewable power sources, solar power is rapidly becomingpopular because it is inexhaustible, clean, and dependable. It has also become moreefficient since the power conversion efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells has increased. Following these trends, solar power will become more affordable inyears to come and considerable investments are to be expected. Despite thesize of solar plants, the sitting procedure is a crucial factor for theirefficiency and financial viability. Many aspects influence such a decision: legal,environmental, technical, and financial to name a few. This paper describes ageneral integrated framework to evaluate land suitability for the optimalplacement of photovoltaic solar power plants, which is based on acombination of a geographic information system (GIS), remote sensingtechniques, and multi-criteria decision-making methods.  An application of the proposed framework for the Limassol district in Cyprus isfurther illustrated. The combination of a GIS and multi-criteria methodsproduces an excellent analysis tool that creates an extensive database ofspatial and non-spatial data, which will be used to simplify problems as wellassolve and promote the use of multiple criteria. A set of environmental,economic, social, and technical constrains, based on recent Cypriotlegislation, European's Union policies, and expert advice, identifies thepotential sites for solar park installation. The pairwise comparison methodin the context of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied toestimate the criteria weights in order to establish their relativeimportance in site evaluation. In addition, four different methods tocombine information layers and check their sensitivity were used. The firstconsidered all the criteria as being equally important and assigned them equalweight, whereas the others grouped the criteria and graded them according totheir objective perceived importance. The overall suitability of the studyregion for sitting solar parks is appraised through the summation rule.  Strict application of the framework depicts 3.0 % of the study regionscoring a best-suitability index for solar resource exploitation, henceminimizing the risk in a potential investment. However, using differentweighting schemes for criteria, suitable areas may reach up to 83 % of thestudy region. The suggested methodological framework applied can be easilyutilized by potential investors and renewable energy developers, through afront end web-based application with proper GUI for personalized weightingschemes

Optimal site selection for sitting a solar park using multi-criteria decision analysis and geographical information systems