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Wind Energy Potential in LATIN AMERICA
Map of mean 80-m wind speeds for year 2000
Wind speeds are calculated at 80 m, the hub height
of modern, 77-m diameter, 1500 kW turbines. Since
relatively few observations are available at 80
m, the Least Square extrapolation technique is utilized
and revised here to obtain estimates of wind speeds
at 80 m given observed wind speeds at 10 m (widely
available) and a network of sounding stations.
Tower data from the Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
were used to validate the results. Globally, ~13%
of all reporting stations experience annual mean
wind speeds ≥ 6.9 m/s at 80 m (i.e., wind
power class 3 or greater) and can therefore be considered
suitable for low-cost wind power generation.
This estimate is believed to be conservative. Areas
with great potential are found in at the southern
tip of the South American continent.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/winds/global_winds.html
Availability of standardized evaluations
of the wind energy potential
Wind energy potential can not easily be shown in
simple overwiew maps. The map indicates the countries
for which wind energy evaluations are available.
These have been carried out by means of a standardized
method developped by the danish Risø Laboratory.
http://www.energie-atlas.ch/wi-100.htm
Countries
Antigua and Barbuda | Argentina
| Bahamas | Barbados | Belize | Brazil
| Bolivia | Chile |
Colombia | Costa Rica | Cuba | Dominica | Dominican
Republic | Ecuador | El
Salvador | French Guayana | Grenada | Guatemala
| Guyana | Haiti | Honduras
| Jamaica | Mexico
| Nicaragua | Panama
| Paraguay | Peru |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saint Lucia | Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines | Suriname | Trinidad Tobago |
Uruguay | Venezuela
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