Solar and wind resource assessment

The Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS), developed by the Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy and Transport (European Union), contains static and interactive maps for geographical assessment of the solar resource and performance of photovoltaic technology. The focus is on Europe, Africa and Asia. Air temperature data is also provided.

The Global Wind Atlas was developed by the Denmark Technical University (DTU), Department of Wind Energy and funded by the Danish Energy Agency Energy’s Technology Development and Demostration Programme (EUDP). It provides wind resource data and microscale modelling with a unified and transparent methodology. It can be used for aggregation, upscaling analysis and energy integration modelling for energy planners and policy makers.

The NASA Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (NASA SSE) website is a platform providing data sets for particular locations as well as global data sets. There is also data available to be used in the tool called "Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables" (HOMER) or in the software RETscreen.

The Global RE opportunity tool developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) enables quick, intuitive analysis and visualization of the technical potential, economic opportunity, and market size for a variety of renewable energy technologies (e.g. solar, wind, biomass, geothermal) as well as hydrogen and transportation technologies.