Environment Canada's Wind Energy Atlas web site aims at developing new meteorological tools to be used by Canada's wind energy industry. It offers the possibility to browse through the results of the numerical simulations that were run on the Canadian territory in order to determine its wind energy potential. Consultants and the general public will find here valuable data about this promosing renewable energy.

This site features colour maps representing the average wind velocity and power on the whole country, as well as corresponding geophysical characteristics, all available in an easy to use browsing interface that allows you to go quickly to the heart of the meteorological data.

Also offered are an overview of the methodology used to generate the different simulation maps, and a download section where data files can be obtained in case you would like to run custom simulations.

The Canadian Wind Energy Atlas is a contribution from the EOLE Project, a research project hosted by Environment Canada (RPN) and initiated in year 2000.