Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource
A shapefile of annual average wind resource potential for Minnesota, 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 map has been validated with available surface data by NREL and wind energy meteorological consultants. The 30m and 80m wind speed data values from the Minnesota state portal were averaged, then converted to power density assuming a Weibull K of 2.0 and using elevation to estimate air density.
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.
Complete Metadata
| bureauCode |
[ "019:20" ] |
|---|---|
| dataQuality | true |
| identifier | https://data.openei.org/submissions/295 |
| issued | 2014-11-25T07:00:00Z |
| landingPage | https://data.openei.org/submissions/295 |
| programCode |
[ "019:010" ] |
| projectNumber | 11407 |
| projectTitle | Wind Powering America |
| spatial | {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-180,-83],[180,-83],[180,83],[-180,83],[-180,-83]]]} |
