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ReEDS: Land-based wind profiles
This record provides modeled hourly land-based wind capacity factor profiles for the contiguous United States (U.S.), generated using the Wind Integration National Dataset Toolkit (WTK), High-Resolution Ra
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Published2026
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This record provides modeled hourly land-based wind capacity factor profiles for the contiguous United States (U.S.), generated using the Wind Integration National Dataset Toolkit (WTK), High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) dataset, System Advisor Model (SAM), and Renewable Energy Potential (reV) model. These profiles are used in the Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model.
Additional details are provided in the ReEDS documentation.
Technology assumptions
Land-based wind capacity factor profiles use assumptions consistent with the 2024 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) and Lopez et al. (2025) assumptions for 2035, namely:
- Turbine rating: 6 MW
- Rotor diameter: 170 m
- Hub height: 115 m
- Specific power: 264 $W/m^2$
- Static losses: 11%
- Additional losses: Hourly wake losses are determined endogenously for each site, with average values ranging from 0.05%–25%. Each profile also includes hourly outages during extreme cold (hub height air temperature ≤–20°C) and icing (air temperature ≤0 °C and relative humidity ≥95%) conditions.
Temporal resolution
All capacity factor profiles are at hourly resolution in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and represent instantaneous values on the hour. The profiles span 15 weather years (2007–2013 + 2016–2023); profiles for 2007–2013 use WTK data and profiles for 2016–2023 use bias-corrected HRRR data, with further information available in the Wind Resource Database (WRDB). For leap years, the final day of the year (December 31) is dropped, such that each year contains 8760 hours.
Spatial resolution
Capacity factor profiles are provided for up to ~50,000 11.5 km × 11.5 km resource sites for the three siting access assumptions described by Lopez et al. (
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Mowers, Matthew (2026). ReEDS: Land-based wind profiles. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18827074