Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assesment (SWERA)

NREL’s SWERA program provides easy access to high quality renewable energy resource information and data to users all around the world. Its goal is to help facilitate renewable energy policy and investment by making high quality information freely available to key user groups. SWERA products include high resolution maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and time series data, along with links to energy optimization tools needed to apply these data.
In cooperation with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), NREL has also produced high-resolution maps and data sets of solar and wind energy resources for more than a dozen developing countries through the Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) initiative. The resource data are integrated into a geographic information systems (GIS) framework that allows the resource data to be combined with key geographic and demographic data.