Identification of Suitable Regions for Wind Power Construction Case Study: Fars Province

The wind as one of the manifestations of renewable energies is very important for tabernacle instead of fossil fuels. The Fars province, according to its topography and position is one of the best places to build wind power plant. In this research, different criteria and sub-criteria in the provinces of Fars for potential evaluating of the wind power plants construction were considered. Criteria fuzzy modeling has been down based on expert opinions and survey researches, the control points and fuzzy function type of each layers based on fuzzy membership ranging from zero to one was applied by IDRISI software. Then, in order to the importance of the integration information of, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) for layers weighting was implemented by Expert choice software. So, the Arc GIS software were applied for spatial analysis and overlaying the layers. Fars province divided into four levels: excellent, good, fair and poor, in terms of capability for the wind power plants building. Finally, the results indicated that excellent areas for the construction of wind power plants in the study area are located in the north, south and south west of the study area at Eghlide and lamerd station with an area exceeding 893722/69 hectares. In addition, good areas are Lar, west firuz abad, mamsani, Abadeh, Eghlide and south Darab with an area exceeding 3662847/76 hectares. It is hoped that renewable energy of wind without any pollution could be utilized by the construction of wind power plants in these places.