U.S. Wind Turbine Analysis

U.S. Wind Turbines

Wind turbines utilize wind to generate electricity. In the United States, wind energy demands are increasing and onshore development is rapidly growing. A huge factor that drives wind turbine development is wind flow pattern and speeds. Although, some may claim that wind turbines are eyesores due to the visuals and height, wind power is an essential for clean energy.

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Data Sources

U.S. Wind Turbine Database

Global Wind Atlas

U.S. Census Bureau TIGER Products

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Methods and Tools

• Queried wind turbine CSV data with SQL in PostGIS
• Performed a tabular join in QGIS 3.14
• Clipped US wind speeds raster in QGIS 3.14
• 3D wind turbine height data is shown on Mapbox web map

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Project assets

• Point locations of US Wind Turbines GeoJSON file