Table 2.

Summary of criteria considered from the literature reviewed.

Criteria	Fetanat and Khorasaninejad19	Wu et al.27	Vasileiou et al.56	Chaouachi et al.54	Mahdy and Bahaj57	Wu et al.58	Wu et al.28	Abdel-Basset et al.60	Lo et al.55
Wind resources	v	v	v	v	v	v	v	v	v
Seawater depth	v	v	v	v	v	v		v	v
Undersea geological conditions		v					v	v	v
Marine conditions	v	v				v	v	v	v
Environmental protection	v	v		v			v	v	v
Distance to shore	v	v	v	v	v	v		v	v
Electricity networks	v	v	v	v				v
Traffic condition		v	v		v	v	v	v	v
Profit	v	v					v	v	v
Construction, operation, and maintenance costs		v					v	v	v
Local subsidies		v
Job creation		v					v	v	v
Policy planning							v	v	v