USX Site – 87^th St. and Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL

10m NRG Wind Assessment Tower

This wind assessment study at the USX site is sponsored by:
City of Chicago, Department of Environment

Picture of the Weather Tower

Final Report – Executive Summary

Complete Final Report

Results:

Time Series	Wind Distribution	Wind Rose
December 2002	December 2002	December 2002
January 2003	January 2003	January 2003
February	February	February
March	March	March
April	April	April
May	May	May
June	June	June
July	July	July
August	August	August
September	September	September
October	October	October
November	November	November
December	December	December
Midway	Entire Dataset	Entire Dataset

Wind Energy Compass

Raw Data File (.txt format)

		Average Wind Speed
Month	(m/s)	(mph)	Shape factor
December-02	6.45	14.43	2.6
January-03	5.74	12.84	2.6
Feburary-03	5.75	12.87	1.9
March-03	5.18	11.59	2.1
April-03	5.83	13.04	2.3
May-03	5.38	12.03	2.0
June-03	4.24	9.48	2.2
July-03	4.22	9.44	2.0
August-03	4.56	10.20	2.2
September-03	4.69	10.49	2.6
October-03	4.62	10.33	2.4
November-03	5.48	12.26	1.9
December-03	5.88	13.15	2.1