## Abbreviations  
The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript: \begin{tabular}{l l} \(n_{ij}\) & normalized value of criteria \\ \(v_{ij}\) & weighted normalized value of criteria \\ \(w_{j}\) & weight of criterion \(j\) \\ \(S^{+}\) & ideal positive solution \\ \(S^{-}\) & ideal negative solution \\ \(d_{i}^{+}\) & separation from positive ideal solution \\ \(d_{i}^{-}\) & separation from negative ideal solution \\ \(R_{i}\) & relative closeness of solution \(S_{i}\) w.r.t. \(S^{+}\) \\ \(W(t)\) & Weighted sum of turbine \(t\) \\ \(\mu_{t}\) & Membership function for turbine \(t\) \\ \(\mu_{HH}\) & Membership function for hub height \\ \(\mu_{WS}\) & Membership function for wind speed \\ \(\mu_{ZP}\) & Membership function for percentage of zero output \\ \(\mu_{RP}\) & Membership function for percentage of rated output \\ \(\mu_{AEP}\) & Membership function for annual energy production \\ Dev(t) & Collective deviation for all criteria for turbine \(t\) \\ \(I_{x}\) & Ideal value of criterion \(x\) \\ \(A_{x}\) & Actual achieved value of criterion \(x\) \\ \(MCDM\) & Multi-criteria decision-making \\ \(TOPSIS\) & Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution \\ \(GA\) & Genetic Algorithms \\ \(PSO\) & Particle Swarm Optimization \\ \(AHP\) & Analytical Hierarchy Process \\ \(WASPAS\) & Weighted aggregated sum product assessment \\ \(HH\) & Hub height (in meters) \\ \(WS\) & Wind speed (in m/s) \\ \(ZP\) & Percentage of zero output \\ \(RP\) & Percentage of rated output \\ \(AEP\) & Annual energy production (in kWh/yr) \\ \(maxHH\) & Maximum Hub height (in meters) \\ \(maxWS\) & Maximum Wind speed (in m/s) \\ \(maxZP\) & Maximum Percentage of zero output \\ \(maxRP\) & Maximum Percentage of rated output \\ \(maxAEP\) & Maximum Annual energy production (in kWh/yr) \\ \(FL\) & Fuzzy logic \\ \(WSM\) & Weighted sum method \\ \(GP\) & Goal programming \\ Acciona & Acciona AW70/1500 Class I \\ Alstom & Alstom ECO 100/2000 Class I \\ DeWind & DeWind D92 \\ Dongfang & Dongfang DF110-2500 \\ Doosan & Doosan WinDS 3000 \\ EnerconE2 & Enercon E-82E2/2000 \\ EnerconE4 & Enercon E-82E4/3000 \\ Gamesa & Gamesa G97-2.0 MW \\ Hanjin & Hanjin HJWT2000-93 \\ Leitwwind & Leitwind LTW70-2000 \\ Nordex & Nordex N131/3000 \\ Sinovel & Simovel S3000/115 \\ Vestas112 & Vestas V112-3.0 MW \\ Vestas110 & Vestas V110-2.0 MW \\ Windtec & Windtec FC3000-130 \\ \end{tabular} \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**HH** & \multicolumn{6}{c}{**Turair**} & \multicolumn{6}{c}{**Wejh**} \\ \hline
**(m)** & **WS** & **ZP** & **RP** & **AEP** & \(R_{i}\) & **WS** & **ZP** & **RP** & **AEP** & \(R_{i}\) \\ \hline
50 & 6.08 & 1.67 & 0.55 & 3,908,583 & 0.446 & 4.99 & 2.99 & 0.10 & 2,563,184 & 0.370 \\
60 & 6.24 & 1.59 & 0.69 & 4,201,630 & 0.452 & 5.11 & 2.83 & 0.15 & 2,765,474 & 0.368 \\
70 & 6.37 & 1.53 & 0.83 & 4,460,943 & 0.463 & 5.23 & 2.71 & 0.20 & 2,945,786 & 0.370 \\
80 & 6.49 & 1.47 & 0.96 & 4,693,399 & 0.477 & 5.33 & 2.61 & 0.27 & 3,108,770 & 0.397 \\
90 & 6.60 & 1.43 & 1.10 & 4,904,445 & 0.499 & 5.41 & 2.53 & 0.33 & 3,257,746 & 0.429 \\
100 & 6.70 & 1.39 & 1.22 & 5,097,631 & 0.514 & 5.49 & 2.45 & 0.40 & 3,395,056 & 0.479 \\
110 & 6.79 & 1.35 & 1.37 & 5,275,713 & 0.537 & 5.57 & 2.37 & 0.48 & 3,522,579 & 0.538 \\
120 & 6.87 & 1.31 & 1.50 & 5,440,956 & 0.545 & 5.64 & 2.31 & 0.57 & 3,641,713 & 0.592 \\
130 & 6.95 & 1.28 & 1.64 & 5,595,181 & 0.550 & 5.70 & 2.26 & 0.65 & 3,753,511 & 0.617 \\
140 & 7.02 & 1.26 & 1.80 & 5,739,430 & 0.554 * & 5.76 & 2.22 & 0.74 & 3,858,955 & 0.630 * \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 6: TOPSIS analysis for turbine Enceron E-82 E2/2000. The best choice for each site is marked with an asterisk.