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.
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TY - DATA
AB - 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.
AU - Langle, Nicholas
A2 - Heimiller, Donna
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - GIS
KW - Minnesota
KW - NREL
KW - energy
KW - renewable
KW - shapefile
KW - wind
KW - wind data
KW - wind resource
LA - English
DA - 2014/11/25
PY - 2014
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/295
ER -
Langle, Nicholas, and Donna Heimiller. Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 25 November, 2014, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/295.
Langle, N., & Heimiller, D. (2014). Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/295
Langle, Nicholas and Donna Heimiller. Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, November, 25, 2014. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/295
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_295,
title = {Minnesota High Resolution Wind Resource},
author = {Langle, Nicholas and Heimiller, Donna},
abstractNote = {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.},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/295},
year = {2014},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/295},
note = {Accessed: 2026-08-19}
}
Details
Data from Nov 25, 2014
Last updated Aug 11, 2025
Submitted Nov 25, 2014
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Donna Heimiller
Authors
Research Areas
DOE Project Details
Project Name Wind Powering America
Project Number 11407
