More with Renewable Energies

           NREL, otherwise known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, look at ways to answers our current energy challenges.  They analyze energy and validate new products for markets.  Their goal is to try and change the way that our world uses energy.  They are developing renewable energy technologies and practices emphasizing on fuel production, transportation, electricity generation and delivery.
           On their website they have a list of different maps that depict various renewable resources for different projects.  Most of the maps are offered to the public either through Google Maps or as static maps.  Such categories of maps that they provide are biomass maps, geothermal maps, solar maps, wind maps, and even international maps.

http://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/map_csp_us_10km_july_feb2009.jpg
http://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar.html

The map is July's 'concentrating solar power radiation (10 km) from data gathered 1998-2005.  It provides the monthly average and annual average daily total concentrating solar power.

NREL. "NREL: Dynamic Maps, GIS Data, and Analysis Tools - Maps." National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 May 2013. <http://www.nrel.gov/gis/maps.html>.