Global Wind Energy Resources by Country

We analyzed the wind energy resources as per NREL's OpenEI dataset \cite{nrel2011}. This includes per country wind power classes 3 through 7 at a height of 50 meters and it contains both the available power, as well as the available energy - using baseline capacity factors from \cite{doe2008}. We then normalize the 7 resource classes of the dataset into 10 resource quality deciles and show the country breakdown of wind resources it in Fig. \ref{957922}. While the dataset exists for all countries, from this point forward we will only use a sample of representative countries on each figure, in order to avoid clutter.