Enriched Data of Wind Farms (EDWin)

EDWin (Enriched Data of Wind Farms) is a dataset developed to provide information about global wind farms. The dataset is based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) data and has been enriched with additional variables obtained from various databases. The dataset includes two separate data sets, one for global turbines and one for wind farms. As of September 2022, this dataset contains the most recent information available.

The datasets have the following structures:

Wind Turbine data

The data for wind turbines includes 359,947 entries and 12 columns.

Variable Name
Description

id
Key value of the data point

lon
Longitude of the location

lat
Latitude of the location

country
Country where the turbine is located

continent
Continent where the turbine is located

land cover
The type of land on which the turbine is located

landform
The physical features of the land on which the turbine is located

elevation
The altitude of the turbine

turbine spacing
The distance between turbines in the wind farm

WFid
Wind Farm ID

number of turbines
The number of turbines in the wind farm

shape
The rough shape of the wind farm

Wind Farm data

The data for wind farms includes 20,608 entries and 11 columns.

Variable Name
Description

WFid
Wind Farm ID

lon
Longitude of the location (center of the wind farm)

lat
Latitude of the location (center of the wind farm)

country
Country where the wind farm is located

continent
Continent where the wind farm is located

land cover
The modal value of the land cover for the turbines in the wind farm

landform
The average value of the landform for the turbines in the wind farm

elevation
The average elevation of the turbines in the wind farm

turbine spacing
The average turbine spacing for the turbines in the wind farm

number of turbines
The number of turbines in the wind farm

shape
The rough shape of the wind farm

 Note that the data for "Country", "Continent", "Land Cover", "Landform", "Elevation" and "Turbine spacing" were collected turbine-specific and later added to the wind farm dataset in an aggregated form. For the categorical variables, the modulus of the respective turbine values was taken, and for numerical variables, the average was calculated. The two variables, number of turbines (i.e. wind farm size) and wind farm shape (i.e. a rough shape of the wind farm), were obtained from the wind farms data and added to the turbine dataset.

Sources

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[7] Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey