Data from: Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States up to March 2014

Wind energy is a rapidly growing form of renewable energy in the United States. While summary information on the total amounts of installed capacity are available by state, a free, centralized, national, turbine-level, geospatial dataset useful for scientific research, land and resource management, and other uses did not exist. Available in multiple formats and in a web application, these public domain data provide industrial-scale onshore wind turbine locations in the United States up to March 2014, corresponding facility information, and turbine technical specifications. Wind turbine records have been collected and compiled from various public sources, digitized or position verified from aerial imagery, and quality assured and quality controlled. Technical specifications for turbines were assigned based on the wind turbine make and model as described in public literature. In some cases, turbines were not seen in imagery or turbine information did not exist or was difficult to obtain. Uncertainty associated with these is recorded in a confidence rating.

风能是美国当前增长最为迅猛的可再生能源类型之一。尽管目前已有按州划分的装机总容量汇总信息，但此前始终缺乏可用于科学研究、土地与资源管理等场景的免费、集中式国家级风机级（turbine-level）地理空间数据集（geospatial dataset）。
本数据集提供多种格式版本，并配套网页应用程序，其公有领域（public domain）数据涵盖截至2014年3月的美国陆上工业级风电风机点位、对应设施信息及风机技术规格。
风电风机的相关记录已从各类公开来源收集整合，并通过航空影像完成数字化处理或位置核验，同时经过了质量保证与质量控制流程。
风机技术规格依据公开文献中记载的风机品牌与型号进行赋值。
在部分案例中，航空影像未捕获到风机，或风机相关信息缺失、难以获取，此类情况对应的不确定性将通过置信评级（confidence rating）予以记录。