Hello katcarr,
As a researcher reading your question, I was not sure if you were
looking for the major "established" sources of wind power, IE: areas
with turbines already set up, or the potential sources of wind power
across the United States and the amount of energy they generate.
I am going to try to provide you with maps/charts that will give cover
both of these areas. Most of the maps are labelled or color coded for
the amount of energy that the area provides
The first map is a map from the DOE Wind Energy Program: "This map
shows the wind resource in the United States. Land is categorized by
wind power class (left column of key), defined by a range of annual
average wind speeds measured at 10 meters (33 feet) and 50 meters (164
feet)."
Source: http://www.eere.energy.gov/wind/we_map.html
An awesome set of maps about potential wind power can be found here:
http://www.eere.energy.gov/windpoweringamerica/wind_resources.html
Click on the state you are interested in, (this will also work on the
close-up view of the east coast map) and it will give you the wind
resources assessment status for the state in question. Here are two
states found through this link:
Colorado - http://www.coloradoenergy.org/corrd/default.asp
Iowa (average annual) -
http://www.energy.iastate.edu/renewable/wind/images/windmap-iowa_annual.gif
There are also a series of maps with "Installed U.S. Wind Capacity"
where you can see state-specific wind projects. The link for this is
here: http://www.eere.energy.gov/windpoweringamerica/wind_installed_capacity.html
You can click on the link to see a larger map.
A much better map of current wind energy projects throughout the
United States can be found here:
http://www.awea.org/projects/index.html This map is updated as of
January 23, 2003 and if you click on a state, you will be given a
detailed overview of the projects within that state. Here is the chart
for Texas: http://www.awea.org/projects/texas.html
Another chart about specific projects can be found here (although it
appears to be from 1998):
http://www.nationalwind.org/resources/windrel/survey.htm
This website is a bit more geographical in that it labels where the
wind sites are (data is as of August 2002):
http://www.windustry.org/sites/default.htm
The states are divided into sections, such as this one for the Midwest
and both small and large scale projects are color coded and numbered
with a chart at the bottom describing them in more detail:
http://www.windustry.org/sites/region_mw.htm
This website has some nice maps (for the northwest), but you would
need to order the maps because they are not available in high
resolutions free of charge: http://www.windpowermaps.org/default.asp
Here is a website with tons of maps and tables as well as information
for you: http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/ Instead of sifting
through the information first, you might want to click on the "List of
Maps" and "List of Tables" links at the bottom on the page.
I have attempted to answer your question with the most current data
that was available. If you need any clarifications regarding this
answer, please let me know and I will do my best to further assist
you.
tisme-ga
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