Objective

The fundamental requirements for conducting a temporal and geographic analysis of wind energy power plant deployment is to construct a database that contains the following for all wind projects deployed globally:
  1. Installed capacity (rated output) and capacity factor (if available for verification)
  2. Commissioning year 
  3. Location (geographic coordinates)
  4. Resource quality measure
This information can then be used to statistically correlate historical project deployment to wind resource quality on a global and country-level basis. Our initial hypotheses are: 
- significant installed wind capacity and
- compact grids in a relatively limited geographic area. I.e. large countries such as the United States, China or Australia will likely not adhere to the trend.