Western Wind Resources DatasetThis interface gives access to the 30,000+ sites that were modeled by 3TIER as part of the Western Wind and Solar Integration Study. The data can be accessed in two ways:
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NREL/3TIER - Western Wind Resources Dataset
Each turbine icon represents a site consisting of ten 3 MW Vestas V90 turbines (for a total of 30 MW).
The 30,000+ sites were selected from over 1.2 million points based on pre-existing sites; transmission corridors and RE zones; load correlation and wind power density. This data was modeled by 3TIER using the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) model to downscale the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data. |
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