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    • California High Resolution Wind Resource

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    A shapefile of annual average wind resource potential for California, 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 11, 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.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date September 18, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 18, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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    Data First Published 2014-11-25T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-17T16:33:14Z
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    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:010
    Projectnumber 11407
    Projecttitle Wind Powering America
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