New Mexico High Resolution Wind Resource

Description

A shapefile of annual average wind resource potential for New Mexico, United States at a 50 meter height. This data set has been validated by NREL and wind energy meteorological consultants. *Note*: This data is not suitable for micro-siting potential development projects. This shapefile was generated from a raster dataset with a 200 m resolution, in a UTM zone 13, datum WGS 84 projection system. The wind power resource estimates were produced by AWS TrueWind using their MesoMap system and historical weather data under contract to Wind Powering America/NREL. This map has been validated with available surface data by NREL and wind energy meteorological consultants. For updated gridded long-term average wind data please see the "Global Wind Atlas" resource below. For more information on NREL's wind resource data development, see the "Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit" and the "WIND Toolkit Long-Term Ensemble Dataset" resources.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 200m resolution 50m height wind resource data for New Mexico https://data.openei.org/files/307/newmexicowindhighresolution.zip
33 Report detailing the project and methodologies. https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/38127.pdf
21 The Global Wind Atlas is a free, web-based application developed to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world and then perform preliminary calculations. The Global Wind Atlas facilitates online queries and provides freely downloadable datasets based on the latest input data and modeling methodologies. https://globalwindatlas.info/en/
21 WIND Toolkit Long-term Ensemble Dataset (WTK-LED), an updated version of the meteorological WIND Toolkit, is a meteorological dataset providing high-resolution time series, including interannual variability and model uncertainty of wind speed at every modeling grid point to indicate ranges of possible wind speeds. https://data.openei.org/submissions/5987
21 The WIND Toolkit, which was created through the collaborative efforts of NREL and 3TIER, includes instantaneous meteorological conditions from computer model output and calculated turbine power. https://data.openei.org/submissions/2

Tags

  • wind-data
  • wind-resource
  • shapefile
  • wind
  • 50m
  • gis
  • renewable
  • nrel
  • new-mexico
  • energy
  • aws-truewind

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