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    • Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource

    Metadata Updated: August 12, 2025

    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.

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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 August 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 12, 2025

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 12, 2025
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/295
    Data First Published 2014-11-25T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-11T20:15:50Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Homepage URL https://data.openei.org/submissions/295
    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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