Solar and wind power potential of the U.S.

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The solar power potential of the U.S.
Annual average solar resource data are shown for a tilt = latitude collector. The data for Hawaii and the 48 contiguous states are a 10km satellite modeled dataset (SUNY/NREL, 2007) representing data from 1998-2009. The data for Alaska are 40 km dataset produced by the Climatological Solar Radiation Model (NREL, 2003)

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The wind power potential of the U.S.
The data shown are average wind speeds at a 100-meter hub height for the year 2012 derived from modeled resource estimates developed for the Wind Toolkit.

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These maps were produced by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy.