<div style='text-align:Left;'><div><p><span>This dataset provides indication of wind resource potential, in terms of quality and quantity, for the State of Oregon.</span></p><p><span>Values are reported in terms of estimated annual capacity factor, a measure of wind resource quality. Capacity factor indicates the amount of energy produced in a typical year, as a fraction of maximum possible energy, if the facility were producing at full nameplate capacity, for 100% of the hours of the year.   For example, a 100 MW solar power plant with 21% capacity factor would generate 100 MW x 8760 hrs/yr x 21% = 183,960 MWh/yr.</span></p><p><span>Analysis steps included the following: </span></p><p><span>1) Obtain raw wind data from the National Renewable Energy Lab [1], </span></p><p><span>2) Use ESRI “inverse distance weighting” geoprocessing to convert from points (vector format) to continuous surface (raster format)</span></p><p><span>3) Clip to Oregon state boundary</span></p><p><span>References:</span></p><p><span>[1] Maclaurin, G. J., Grue, N. W., Lopez, A. J., &amp; Heimiller, D. M. (2019). The Renewable Energy Potential (reV) Model: A Geospatial Platform for Technical Potential and Supply Curve Modeling (No. NREL/TP-6A20-73067). National Renewable Energy Lab.(NREL), Golden, CO (United States).</span></p><p><span>Maclaurin, G., Lopez, A., Grue, N., Buster, G., Rossol, M., &amp; Spencer, R. (2020). Open Source reV (The Renewable Energy Potential Model) (No. Open Source reV). National Renewable Energy Lab.(NREL), Golden, CO (United States).</span></p></div></div>
<div style='text-align:Left;'><div><p><span>This dataset provides indication of wind resource potential, in terms of quality and quantity, for the State of Oregon.</span></p><p><span>Values are reported in terms of estimated annual capacity factor, a measure of wind resource quality. Capacity factor indicates the amount of energy produced in a typical year, as a fraction of maximum possible energy, if the facility were producing at full nameplate capacity, for 100% of the hours of the year.   For example, a 100 MW solar power plant with 21% capacity factor would generate 100 MW x 8760 hrs/yr x 21% = 183,960 MWh/yr.</span></p><p><span>Analysis steps included the following: </span></p><p><span>1) Obtain raw wind data from the National Renewable Energy Lab [1], </span></p><p><span>2) Use ESRI “inverse distance weighting” geoprocessing to convert from points (vector format) to continuous surface (raster format)</span></p><p><span>3) Clip to Oregon state boundary</span></p><p><span>References:</span></p><p><span>[1] Maclaurin, G. J., Grue, N. W., Lopez, A. J., &amp; Heimiller, D. M. (2019). The Renewable Energy Potential (reV) Model: A Geospatial Platform for Technical Potential and Supply Curve Modeling (No. NREL/TP-6A20-73067). National Renewable Energy Lab.(NREL), Golden, CO (United States).</span></p><p><span>Maclaurin, G., Lopez, A., Grue, N., Buster, G., Rossol, M., &amp; Spencer, R. (2020). Open Source reV (The Renewable Energy Potential Model) (No. Open Source reV). National Renewable Energy Lab.(NREL), Golden, CO (United States).</span></p></div></div>
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