Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource
A shapefile of annual average wind resource potential for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands 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 12, 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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AB - A shapefile of annual average wind resource potential for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands 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 12, 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.
AU - Langle, Nicholas
A2 - Heimiller, Donna
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - 50m
KW - GIS
KW - NREL
KW - Puerto Rico
KW - Virgin Islands
KW - energy
KW - renewable
KW - shapefile
KW - wind
KW - wind data
KW - wind resource
KW - AWS TrueWind
LA - English
DA - 2014/11/25
PY - 2014
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/399
ER -
Langle, Nicholas, and Donna Heimiller. Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 25 November, 2014, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/399.
Langle, N., & Heimiller, D. (2014). Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/399
Langle, Nicholas and Donna Heimiller. Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, November, 25, 2014. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/399
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_399,
title = {Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands High Resolution Wind Resource},
author = {Langle, Nicholas and Heimiller, Donna},
abstractNote = {A shapefile of annual average wind resource potential for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands 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 12, 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.},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/399},
year = {2014},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/399},
note = {Accessed: 2025-10-09}
}
Details
Data from Nov 25, 2014
Last updated Jul 30, 2025
Submitted Nov 25, 2014
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Donna Heimiller
Authors
Research Areas
Keywords
50m, GIS, NREL, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, energy, renewable, shapefile, wind, wind data, wind resource, AWS TrueWindDOE Project Details
Project Name Wind Powering America
Project Number 11407
