Guidelines for Wind Resource Assessment: Best Practices for Countries Initiating Wind Development

What are effective ways to promote early stage development of wind projects that lead to successful deployment? What constitutes a bankable wind resource assessment? How is wind resource assessment used in financial analysis of a project? For emerging wind markets, what are the best practices for conducting a wind resource assessment? What are the consequences of a poorly executed wind resource assessment? This publication addresses these and other questions with guidelines on policy support for wind resource assessment, wind measurement, wind data processing, wind flow modeling, and estimation of losses and uncertainty. These are challenges faced in these markets by policy makers, implementation agencies, utilities, developers, and financiers.