Wind Resource: WTK V2 API

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Wind Resource: WTK V2 API#

This resource class downloads wind resource data from Wind Toolkit Data V2 and requires an NREL API key to use.

This dataset allows for resource data to be downloaded for:

  • resource years from 2007 to 2014.

  • locations within the continental United States.

  • resource heights from 10 to 200 meters.

  • time intervals of 5, 15, 30, and 60 minutes.

Available Data#

Resource Data

Resource Heights (m)

wind_speed

10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200

wind_direction

10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200

temperature

10, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200

pressure

0, 100, 200

relative_humidity

2

precipitation_rate

0

Additional Data

Included

site_id

X

site_lat

X

site_lon

X

elevation

--

site_tz

X

data_tz

X

filepath

X

year

X

month

X

day

X

hour

X

minute

X