{"id":16772,"date":"2019-03-01T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16772"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:15:13","slug":"wind-energy-resources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/03\/wind-energy-resources-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind energy resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Southeast is not ever likely to be a big wind energy producer because of our relatively low wind speeds, there is still some potential for wind energy development in mountainous areas and along the coast. Here is a useful website that contains maps of potential wind energy for each state and for the US as a whole. You can access it at <a href=\"https:\/\/windexchange.energy.gov\/maps-data?category=land-based\">https:\/\/windexchange.energy.gov\/maps-data?category=land-based<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/ga-average-wind-speed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16773\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/ga-average-wind-speed-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/ga-average-wind-speed-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/ga-average-wind-speed-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/ga-average-wind-speed.jpg 791w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/03\/ga-average-wind-speed-107x138.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Southeast is not ever likely to be a big wind energy producer because of our relatively low wind speeds, there is still some potential for wind energy development in mountainous areas and along the coast. Here is a useful website that contains maps of potential wind energy for each state and for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":16773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16774,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions\/16774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}