WORLD NEW ENERGY GETS ON GOOGLE MAPS

Google and 3TIER Give the World Universal Access to Global Wind and Solar Resource Potential; 3TIER’s global wind and solar datasets now freely available through Google’s popular platform

February 27, 2014 (3TIER)

"…[3TIER will release the] wind and solar annual averages from its global datasets as part of Google’s Map Gallery launch…[making access to wind and solar resource information] freely available to both researchers and the general public in Google’s popular and widely used platform…[A]ccess to high quality global wind and solar resource information from a reliable, consistent source was not an option for most people. This information is vital to a wide variety of fields, from energy development, infrastructure, efficiency, and policy planning to agriculture and conservation. However, it is often beyond the budgets of the non-profits, NGO’s, and public agencies conducting this important research…Each [3TIER] dataset offers annual average values created using proven, widely-accepted scientific techniques and derived from long-term historical weather models of 10 or more years at high spatial and temporal resolutions…” click here for more

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