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Case study

Regional Solar Suitability Study

A multi-criteria screening of a large coastal region to identify utility-scale solar zones with low environmental sensitivity.

CompletedCoastal region (sample)2025Sample
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The challenge.

The client needed to narrow a large search area to a defensible shortlist of solar zones within a single budget cycle, while avoiding sensitive habitats and productive farmland.

Our approach.

  1. Assembled resource, terrain, land-use, habitat and grid layers into a single spatial model

  2. Agreed weighted criteria with the client and stakeholders in two workshops

  3. Ran sensitivity scenarios to test how rankings changed with different weightings

Outcomes.

  • Search area reduced to a small set of priority zones
  • Transparent scoring accepted by the client's investment committee
  • Reusable model handed over for future updates

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