SWERA: Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment
The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) Programme 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 Programme concluded in 2011, at which time all programme data and information were transferred to OpenEI for long-term availability.
The programme partners, which included the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL, are no longer supporting or maintaining the data. OpenEI has archived the data and is making it publicly available for historical purposes. While the data may be useful for historical reference, it is suggested that users interested in global renewable resource data consult more recent resources.
Here are a few suggested resources to get started on exploring 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://eerscmap.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/)
Citation Formats
TY - DATA
AB - The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) Programme 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 Programme concluded in 2011, at which time all programme data and information were transferred to OpenEI for long-term availability.
The programme partners, which included the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL, are no longer supporting or maintaining the data. OpenEI has archived the data and is making it publicly available for historical purposes. While the data may be useful for historical reference, it is suggested that users interested in global renewable resource data consult more recent resources.
Here are a few suggested resources to get started on exploring 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://eerscmap.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
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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 -
Langle, Nick. 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. (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. 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},
abstractNote = {The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) Programme 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 Programme concluded in 2011, at which time all programme data and information were transferred to OpenEI for long-term availability.
The programme partners, which included the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL, are no longer supporting or maintaining the data. OpenEI has archived the data and is making it publicly available for historical purposes. While the data may be useful for historical reference, it is suggested that users interested in global renewable resource data consult more recent resources.
Here are a few suggested resources to get started on exploring 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://eerscmap.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: 2025-05-14}
}
Details
Data from Dec 21, 2017
Last updated Sep 18, 2023
Submitted Dec 21, 2017
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Jon Weers
