Annual Average Modeled Wind Speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Shapefiles of annual average modeled wind speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands at 70 and 100 m hub heights. These shapefiles were generated from a raster dataset with a 200 m resolution, in a UTM zone 19, datum WGS 84 projection system. This is supplemental data to the 50 m height data set (see "Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource" link below) that was validated by NREL and wind energy meteorological consultants in 2007. *Note*: This data is not suitable for micro-siting potential development projects.
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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AB - Shapefiles of annual average modeled wind speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands at 70 and 100 m hub heights. These shapefiles were generated from a raster dataset with a 200 m resolution, in a UTM zone 19, datum WGS 84 projection system. This is supplemental data to the 50 m height data set (see "Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource" link below) that was validated by NREL and wind energy meteorological consultants in 2007. *Note*: This data is not suitable for micro-siting potential development projects.
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.
AU - Heimiller, Donna
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - GIS
KW - NREL
KW - wind
KW - Puerto Rico
KW - Virgin Islands
KW - wind speed
KW - data
KW - renewable energy
KW - resource
KW - meteorology
KW - meteorological
KW - 100 m
KW - 100 meter
KW - shapefile
KW - geospatial
KW - wind power
KW - raster
KW - availability
KW - potential
KW - historic weather data
KW - weather projection
KW - 70 m
KW - 70 meter
KW - AWS TrueWind
LA - English
DA - 2014/11/25
PY - 2014
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - Annual Average Modeled Wind Speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/129
ER -
Heimiller, Donna. Annual Average Modeled Wind Speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 25 November, 2014, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/129.
Heimiller, D. (2014). Annual Average Modeled Wind Speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/129
Heimiller, Donna. Annual Average Modeled Wind Speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, November, 25, 2014. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/129
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_129,
title = {Annual Average Modeled Wind Speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands},
author = {Heimiller, Donna},
abstractNote = {Shapefiles of annual average modeled wind speed for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands at 70 and 100 m hub heights. These shapefiles were generated from a raster dataset with a 200 m resolution, in a UTM zone 19, datum WGS 84 projection system. This is supplemental data to the 50 m height data set (see "Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource" link below) that was validated by NREL and wind energy meteorological consultants in 2007. *Note*: This data is not suitable for micro-siting potential development projects.
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.},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/129},
year = {2014},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/129},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-12}
}
Details
Data from Nov 25, 2014
Last updated Sep 25, 2025
Submitted Nov 25, 2014
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Donna Heimiller
Authors
Research Areas
Keywords
GIS, NREL, wind, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, wind speed, data, renewable energy, resource, meteorology, meteorological, 100 m, 100 meter, shapefile, geospatial, wind power, raster, availability, potential, historic weather data, weather projection, 70 m, 70 meter, AWS TrueWindDOE Project Details
Project Name Wind Powering America
Project Number 11407
