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== Wind energy resources ==
[[File:Mean Wind Speed.png|thumb|Global map of wind speed at 100 meters on land and around coasts.<ref name="global_wind_atlas">{{cite web | url=https://globalwindatlas.info | title=Global Wind Atlas | publisher=[[Technical University of Denmark]] (DTU) | access-date=23 November 2021 | archive-date=18 January 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190118095006/https://www.globalwindatlas.info/ | url-status=live }}</ref>]]
[[File: Lee Ranch Wind Speed Frequency.svg|thumb|upright=1.6|Distribution of wind speed (red) and energy (blue) for all of 2002 at the Lee Ranch facility in Colorado. The histogram shows measured data, while the curve is the Rayleigh model distribution for the same average wind speed.]]