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4.3 OTHER COUNTRIES
Wind power maps and isovent maps (contour lines of wind speed) are available for a number of coun-
tries and regions around the world (Table 4.3), as wind energy has become part of many national
energy policies. For some of the countries the wind maps are private, and surely some countries that
have wind maps are not listed, and more countries will have wind maps in the future. NREL is help-
ing to develop wind maps worldwide, and as of 2008, twenty-three countries were listed [13]. Some
of the maps are available through the Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA)
Program and the Asia Alternative Energy Program. SWERA provides online, high-quality renew-
able energy maps and other resource information at no cost to the user for countries and regions
around the world. Renewable energy maps, atlases, and assessments can be downloaded [14].
Wind Atlases of the World contains links for over fifty countries [15], many of which contain
wind data and wind statistics on disk. At present, the wind atlas methodology, WAsP, has been
employed in around 105 countries and territories around the world.
A database of wind characteristics is compiled and maintained by the Technical University of
Denmark and Riso National Laboratories, Denmark [16]. The database contains four categories of
wind data: time series, wind resource measurements, structural wind turbine response measure-
ments, and wind farm measurements. There are also links for wind maps.
TABLE 4.3
Countries That Have Maps of Wind Resource, 2008
North America
Europe
Asia
Belgium
Russia
United States protectorates
Canada
Denmark
Afghanistan
Mexico
France
Armenia
El Salvador
Germany
Azerbaijan
Guatemala
Greece
Kazahkstan
Honduras
Ireland
Saudi Arabia
Nicaragua
Italy
China
Luxembourg
Hong Kong
Caribbean
Netherlands
India
Cuba
Portugal
Indonesia
Dominican Republic
Spain
Mongolia
United Kingdom
Japan
Philippines
South America
Argentina
Austria
Sir Lanka and Maldives
Brazil
Croatia
Chile
Czech Republic
Colombia
Estonia
Venezuela
Finland
Southeast Asia
Hungary
Cambodia
Latvia
Laos
Africa
Algeria
Lithuania
Thailand
Egypt
Poland
Vietnam
Eritrea
Slovak Republic
Ethopia
Slovenia
Australia
Ghana
Sweden
New Zealand
Tunisia
Turkey
South Africa
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