UN: Plenty of Wind for Development

There's no substitute for site-specific met masts, but a resource study like this in 13 developing countries helps woo investors while putting together the other pieces of a project.  In terms of wind, the UN assembled data from satellites, balloons, met masts, and whatever else they could get their hands on.  The result is that the potential for wind energy is much higher than initially estimated (40,000 MW +), something we all probably suspected.  But that's always the rub in emerging markets - lots of potential, lots of questions about how to tap it.