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U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025)

Name: U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025)
Published: 2025-09-12
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

DOI 10.25984/3363758

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A machine readable collection of documented wind siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled using the Infrastructure Continuous Ordinance Mapping for Planning and Siting Systems (INFRA-COMPASS) tool, which leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the collection of local codes and ordinances applicable to energy infrastructure. URLs for the ordinance source documents are included in the Wind Ordinances spreadsheet. The GeoPackage file included below contains the jurisdiction shapes for each ordinance. Note that the GeoPackage file is formatted for ingestion by NREL's reVX setbacks tool and therefore does not contain any of the state-level regulations.

**NOTE**: This data was collected with the help of generative AI. The Large Language Models used for this effort make mistakes. Always validate the data for critical use cases.

This data is an update to a previously developed database of wind ordinances found in OEDI Submission 5733: see the "U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances 2022" link below.

INFRA-COMPASS version used for collection: v0.8.2
LLMs used for collection: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o mini

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AB  - A machine readable collection of documented wind siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled using the Infrastructure Continuous Ordinance Mapping for Planning and Siting Systems (INFRA-COMPASS) tool, which leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the collection of local codes and ordinances applicable to energy infrastructure. URLs for the ordinance source documents are included in the Wind Ordinances spreadsheet. The GeoPackage file included below contains the jurisdiction shapes for each ordinance. Note that the GeoPackage file is formatted for ingestion by NREL's reVX setbacks tool and therefore does not contain any of the state-level regulations.

**NOTE**: This data was collected with the help of generative AI. The Large Language Models used for this effort make mistakes. Always validate the data for critical use cases.

This data is an update to a previously developed database of wind ordinances found in OEDI Submission 5733: see the "U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances 2022" link below.

INFRA-COMPASS version used for collection: v0.8.2
LLMs used for collection: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o mini
AU  - Pinchuk, Paul
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A4  - Levine, Aaron
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KW  - machine readable
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KW  - citations
KW  - energy analysis
KW  - analysis
KW  - SitingLab
KW  - land-based wind
KW  - exclusion
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Pinchuk, Paul, et al. U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 12 September, 2025, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/3363758.

Pinchuk, P., Castelão, G., Zuckerman, G., Levine, A., Sky, H., Barrons, J., & Porter, A. (2025). U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025). [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.25984/3363758

Pinchuk, Paul, Guilherme Castelão, Gabriel Zuckerman, Aaron Levine, Haiku Sky, Jacob Barrons, and Aislinn Porter. U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances (2025). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, September, 12, 2025.  Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://doi.org/10.25984/3363758

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author = {Pinchuk, Paul and Castel\~{a}o, Guilherme and Zuckerman, Gabriel and Levine, Aaron and Sky, Haiku and Barrons, Jacob and Porter, Aislinn},
abstractNote = {A machine readable collection of documented wind siting ordinances at the state and local (e.g., county, township) level throughout the United States. The data were compiled using the Infrastructure Continuous Ordinance Mapping for Planning and Siting Systems (INFRA-COMPASS) tool, which leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the collection of local codes and ordinances applicable to energy infrastructure. URLs for the ordinance source documents are included in the Wind Ordinances spreadsheet. The GeoPackage file included below contains the jurisdiction shapes for each ordinance. Note that the GeoPackage file is formatted for ingestion by NREL's reVX setbacks tool and therefore does not contain any of the state-level regulations.



**NOTE**: This data was collected with the help of generative AI. The Large Language Models used for this effort make mistakes. Always validate the data for critical use cases.



This data is an update to a previously developed database of wind ordinances found in OEDI Submission 5733: see the "U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances 2022" link below.



INFRA-COMPASS version used for collection: v0.8.2

LLMs used for collection: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o mini},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/8519},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://doi.org/10.25984/3363758},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-19},
doi = {10.25984/3363758}
}

https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/3363758

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Data from Sep 12, 2025

Last updated Feb 3, 2026

Submitted Sep 22, 2025