Online-only Table 6.
Sensitivity analysis results summarized as average percentage change in bin cell counts.
| Sector | Criteria | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource yield | Distance to major roads | Distance to railway or port | Electricity accessibility | Distance to electrical grid | Distance to urban areas | Landcover | Inverse population density | Distance to oil and gas fields | Market accessibility | Land supply elasticity | Distance to demand centers | Distance to coal power plants | Active coal mine density | |
| CSP | 3, 10, 3, 2, 2 | 1, 4, 1, 3, 4 | <1, 1, <1,< 1, 1 | NA | 1, 6, 2, 1, 8 | 1, 2, <1, 1, 5 | 1, 1, 1, 2, 2 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| PV | 2, 9, 3, 2, 4 | 2, 5, 1, 2, 4 | <1, <1, <1, <1, 1 | NA | 2, 4, 1, 1, 7 | 1, 3, 1, 1, 6 | 1, 3, <1, 1, 5 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Wind | 16, 18, 11, 6, 22 | 14, 5, 2, 2, 3 | 3, 1, 2, <1, 5 | NA | 31, 12, 7, 3, 10 | 2, 1, <1, <1, 2 | 18, 3, 1, 1, 1 | 19, 3, 1, <1, <1 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Hydro | 22, 17, 3, 30, 4 | 2, 1, <1, <1, 2 | 9, 1, <1, 2, 1 | NA | 10, 1, 1, 3, 1 | 1, 1, <1, 1, 2 | NA | 15, 15, 3, 18, 9 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Coal | 16, 2, 1, 19, 2 | 1, 2, <1, 10, 2 | 7, 1, 5, 13, 4 | 1, 1, <1, 5, 1 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 3, <1, <1, 3, 1 | 14, 5, 3, 46, 12 |
| CO | 28, 5, 8, 3, 10 | 1, 1, <1, 1 | 3, 1, 2, 2, <1 | 3, 4, 2, 1, 2 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 20, 2, 9, 1, 4 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| CG | 70, 14, 7, 13, 5 | 10, 2, <1, 2, <1 | 4, 1, <1, <1, 1 | 18, 3, <1, 1, 1 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 43, 14, 6, 12, 4 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| UO | 4, 28, 10, 3, 9 | 10, 5, 2, 3, 2 | 1, 2, 1, <1, 1 | 1, 1, 2, <1, 1 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 4, 6, 5, 1, 4 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| UG | 8, 10, 6, 7, 10 | 2, 2, 2, 1, 2 | <1, <1, <1, <1, 1 | 2, <1, 1, <1, 1 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 3, 4, 1, 5, 3 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| MM | 2, 11, 5, 14, 13 | 1, 5, <1, 5, 4 | 3, 1, 3, 1, 1 | 1, 1, <1, 2, 1 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| NMM | 3, 7, 14, 8, 15 | 8, 1, 1, 2, 3 | 1, <1, 2, 1, 2 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 6, 2, 6, 2, 6 | NA | NA |
| Crop | 57, 1, 2, 4, <1 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 36, 39, 9, 4, 3 | 70, 33, 6, 4, 1 | NA | NA | NA |
| Bio | 116, 8, 3, 14, 10 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 9, 18, 9, 4, 4 | 133, 19, 5, 6, 2 | NA | NA | NA |
Average percentages for each DPI value bins appear for each sector and criterion in the following order: 1 (>0.0–0.2), 2 (>0.2–0.4), 3 (>0.4–0.6), 4 (>0.6–0.8), and 5 (>0.8–1.0). Sensitivity analyses included 21 simulations, varying AHP weights from −20% to +20% of the original weight by increments of 2%. See individual DPI zip files34 for complete summary table generated from each simulation runs. Abbreviations of sector are as follows: CSP – concentrated solar power, PV – photovoltaic solar power, Wind – wind power, Hydro – hydropower, CO – conventional oil, CG – conventional gas, UO – unconventional oil, UG - unconventional gas, MM – metallic minerals, NMM – nonmetallic minerals, Crop – cropland expansion, Bio – biofuels expansion.