{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"solar-wind-cooling","title":"Wind: The Free Coolant That Refunds Part of the Heat Penalty","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/solar-wind-cooling","datePublished":"2026-05-28","lastReviewed":"2026-09-17"},"figure":{"id":"wind-resource","title":"The wind resource. Mean 10 m wind speed per market","unit":"m/s","caption":"The free coolant: mean 10 m wind speed in each of the 40 markets, with the set mean and the median marked. Windiest to calmest spans 3.5x, and it does not track temperature: r with air temperature is -0.09. NASA POWER 20-year climatology, from the Solar Analytica wind pillar.","series":[{"label":"Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA","value":3.41},{"label":"Alice Springs, Australia","value":4.66},{"label":"Antofagasta (Atacama), Chile","value":3.18},{"label":"Athens (Attica), Greece","value":4.45},{"label":"Bamako (Sahel), Mali","value":3.24},{"label":"Berlin, Germany","value":4.51},{"label":"Bogota, Colombia","value":1.81},{"label":"Cairo, Egypt","value":4.04},{"label":"Cape Town, South Africa","value":6.32},{"label":"Casablanca, Morocco","value":3.89},{"label":"Dubai, UAE","value":3.73},{"label":"Helsinki, Finland","value":4.86},{"label":"Jakarta, Indonesia","value":3.11},{"label":"Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India","value":3.56},{"label":"Johannesburg, South Africa","value":3.48},{"label":"Kabul, Afghanistan","value":2.95},{"label":"Lagos, Nigeria","value":3.03},{"label":"Lhasa (Tibet), China","value":2.7},{"label":"London, United Kingdom","value":5.01},{"label":"Los Angeles, USA","value":2.83},{"label":"Madrid, Spain","value":3.48},{"label":"Masdar City / Abu Dhabi, UAE","value":3.87},{"label":"Nairobi, Kenya","value":4.25},{"label":"New York, USA","value":5.31},{"label":"Oslo, Norway","value":1.94},{"label":"Paris, France","value":4.35},{"label":"Perth, Australia","value":6.29},{"label":"Phoenix, Arizona, USA","value":3},{"label":"Reykjavik, Iceland","value":5.25},{"label":"Riyadh, Saudi Arabia","value":3.91},{"label":"Santiago, Chile","value":2.74},{"label":"Sao Paulo, Brazil","value":3.5},{"label":"Seoul, South Korea","value":3.9},{"label":"Seville, Spain","value":3.61},{"label":"Shanghai, China","value":4.81},{"label":"Singapore","value":2.8},{"label":"Stockholm, Sweden","value":2.74},{"label":"Sydney, Australia","value":4.15},{"label":"Tokyo, Japan","value":3.73},{"label":"Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia","value":4}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/solar-wind-cooling/figures/wind-resource/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}