Abstract:

 Along with the development of wind power from “lakeside” to “high mountains” in Jiangxi province, wind farm on high mountains will be the main force in the future. There are multiple factors to consider in the site selection of wind farm, and some of them are qualitative factors, which are hard to be comprehensively analyzed. In addition, wind farm on high mountains has its own characteristics compared with it in plain area and offshore. Site selection method was suggested on the basis of an evaluation index system for site selection of wind farm on high mountains, in which the feasibility and the advantages and disadvantages of site selection were discussed through the comprehensive analysis of each evaluation index, and the optimal wind farm among alternative ones was picked out. In the end, the feasibility of the site selection method was verified by practical application.

Key words: wind power development, wind farm on high mountains, site selection method, evaluation index, analytic hierarchy process （AHP）