SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2012.082 2012.082 Evaluation of “Viability” of Sites for Wind Energy Harnessing - A Fuzzy Logic Rule Based Multi Criteria Evaluation Model MorapakalaSrinivas JainPuskar B.BArjun Mechanical Engineering Department, BITS, Pilani- Hyderabad, Hyderabad, A.P., India Mechanical Engineering Department, BITS, Pilani- Hyderabad Mechanical Engineering, BITS, Pilani- Hyderabad 02092012 11 1 978-1-995850-02-3 804 811 2 September 2012 © 2012 Copyright WSSET 2012

Sites for wind energy harnessing involve colossal amount of investment in the form of money, manpower and time. In order to assess such investments before hand, viability of such sites is to be assessed. This paper narrates the attempt that has been made to formulate and solve this “viability” problem in multi criteria evaluation (MCE) environment. Various criteria that affect the “viability” are identified and defined. Identified that fuzzy logic rule based MCE technique may be useful to solve such problem. A model that uses fuzzy logic toolbox of MATLAB is suggested to evaluate the viability of a site for wind energy harnessing.

 Viability wind energy sites multi criteria evaluation fuzzy logic 2 to 5 September 2012 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies SET2012 11 Vancouver, Canada