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Figure 12.3 Annual wind energy potential country by country, restricted to installations
with capacity factors >20% with siting limited. (A) Onshore. (B) Offshore.
Source: X. Lu, M.B. McElroy, J. Kiviluoma. Global potential for wind-generated electricity.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106 (27) (2009), 10933–10938.

To decide the best feasible solution, the site-to-site basis weather data is usually
needed [15]. Many studies have been conducted on solar and wind energy resource
analysis and multiple studies on finding the possibilities of utilizing solar and wind
energy resources in many regions or countries have been reported in literature [19–23]

2.2 Statistical meteorological data

For many locations, the hourly records of meteorological variables for extended peri-
ods of time do not exist [24]. When the measured weather data are not available for
a location, they can be obtained in mainly two ways [25]. The first method to get the
necessary weather data is to synthetically generate them from the monthly-average