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Wind Power Generation

Provided by: Our World in Data |Published on: July 20, 2021

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Synopsis

This resource from Our World in Data displays annual wind power generation data in the form of an interactive chart, a map, and a table.
Students can see how many terawatt-hours of wind power a country has generated annually since 1965.

Subjects: Science, Mathematics

Authors: Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser

Region: Global

Languages: English

Positives

Seeing how much wind energy has been generated by leading countries can make students hopeful for the potential in the future.
Students can use the many features for customization and data isolation to focus on the data that is most important to them and their area of study.

Prerequisites

Students may need the terms onshore wind, offshore wind, and terawatt-hours defined.

Differentiation & Implementation

This interactive can be used in geography classes as students explore the data and geographical data to determine the environmental conditions necessary to produce wind power.
Students can use this data to support their understanding of the media literacy lesson Wind Farm Site Selection: A Community Debates the Issues.
To connect wind power and other forms of clean energy to climate solutions and greenhouse gas emissions, teachers can combine this data with Project Drawdown's page on electricity as a solution. Students can also use the Installed Solar Energy Capacity, Solar Power Generation, and Installed Geothermal Capacity data from OWID to make additional connections.

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