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SWERA: Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment

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The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) Program was a collaboration of worldwide partners with a mission to provide information on renewable energy resources for countries and regions around the world. Funding and support for the SWERA Program concluded in 2011, at which time all program data and information were archived for long-term availability.

The program partners, which included the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL, are no longer supporting or maintaining the data. The SWERA data have been archived for historical purposes. However, it is suggested that users interested in global solar and wind resource data consult more recent sources.

Here are a few suggested sources for more current and available renewable resource data:

Solar
- Global Solar Atlas (http://globalsolaratlas.info/)
- U.S. National Solar Radiation Database (https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/data-viewer)
- Renewable Energy Data Explorer (https://www.re-explorer.org/)
- IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (https://globalatlas.irena.org/workspace)
- NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy: Global Datasets (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/)

Wind
- Global Wind Atlas (http://globalwindatlas.info/)
- IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (https://globalatlas.irena.org/workspace)
- WINDExchange: Wind Energy Maps and Data (https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data?height=80m)
- Renewable Energy Data Explorer (https://www.re-explorer.org/)
- USGS Wind Turbine Database (https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/)
- NREL WIND Toolkit (https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html)

Climate
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/)
- NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy: Global Datasets (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/)

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TY - DATA AB - The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) Program was a collaboration of worldwide partners with a mission to provide information on renewable energy resources for countries and regions around the world. Funding and support for the SWERA Program concluded in 2011, at which time all program data and information were archived for long-term availability. The program partners, which included the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL, are no longer supporting or maintaining the data. The SWERA data have been archived for historical purposes. However, it is suggested that users interested in global solar and wind resource data consult more recent sources. Here are a few suggested sources for more current and available renewable resource data: Solar - Global Solar Atlas (http://globalsolaratlas.info/) - U.S. National Solar Radiation Database (https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/data-viewer) - Renewable Energy Data Explorer (https://www.re-explorer.org/) - IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (https://globalatlas.irena.org/workspace) - NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy: Global Datasets (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/) Wind - Global Wind Atlas (http://globalwindatlas.info/) - IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (https://globalatlas.irena.org/workspace) - WINDExchange: Wind Energy Maps and Data (https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data?height=80m) - Renewable Energy Data Explorer (https://www.re-explorer.org/) - USGS Wind Turbine Database (https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/) - NREL WIND Toolkit (https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html) Climate - NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/) - NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy: Global Datasets (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/) AU - Langle, Nick A2 - Weers, Jon DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies DO - KW - climate KW - global KW - solar KW - wind KW - SWERA KW - renewable energy KW - resources KW - energy KW - power KW - resource assessment KW - archive LA - English DA - 2017/12/21 PY - 2017 PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory T1 - SWERA: Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/425 ER -
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Langle, Nick, and Jon Weers. SWERA: Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 21 December, 2017, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/425.
Langle, N., & Weers, J. (2017). SWERA: Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/425
Langle, Nick and Jon Weers. SWERA: Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, December, 21, 2017. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/425
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_425, title = {SWERA: Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment}, author = {Langle, Nick and Weers, Jon}, abstractNote = {The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) Program was a collaboration of worldwide partners with a mission to provide information on renewable energy resources for countries and regions around the world. Funding and support for the SWERA Program concluded in 2011, at which time all program data and information were archived for long-term availability.

The program partners, which included the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL, are no longer supporting or maintaining the data. The SWERA data have been archived for historical purposes. However, it is suggested that users interested in global solar and wind resource data consult more recent sources.

Here are a few suggested sources for more current and available renewable resource data:

Solar
- Global Solar Atlas (http://globalsolaratlas.info/)
- U.S. National Solar Radiation Database (https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/data-viewer)
- Renewable Energy Data Explorer (https://www.re-explorer.org/)
- IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (https://globalatlas.irena.org/workspace)
- NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy: Global Datasets (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/)

Wind
- Global Wind Atlas (http://globalwindatlas.info/)
- IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (https://globalatlas.irena.org/workspace)
- WINDExchange: Wind Energy Maps and Data (https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data?height=80m)
- Renewable Energy Data Explorer (https://www.re-explorer.org/)
- USGS Wind Turbine Database (https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/)
- NREL WIND Toolkit (https://www.nrel.gov/grid/wind-toolkit.html)

Climate
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/)
- NASA Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy: Global Datasets (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/)
}, url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/425}, year = {2017}, howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/425}, note = {Accessed: 2026-06-03} }

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Data from Dec 21, 2017

Last updated Oct 16, 2025

Submitted Dec 21, 2017

Organization

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Contact

Jon Weers

Authors

Nick Langle

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jon Weers

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

DOE Project Details

Project Name Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA)

Project Number 20876

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