Description: On-shore industrial wind power turbines in Texas through 2013.
Data sources: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Digital Obstacle File; wind turbines from FAA were used as a base digital file http://tod.faa.gov/tod/public/TOD_DOF.html
USGS Data Series DS-817: Diffendorfer, J.E., Compton, Roger, Kramer, Louisa, Ancona, Zach, and Norton, Donna, 2014, Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States through July 2013 (ver.1.1, May 2015): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 817, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds817.
Copyright Text: USGS, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Energy Information Adminstration
Description: Provides a general idea of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) approved routes of the CREZ 345-kV transmission lines.
This dataset, created in August of 2011, represents zones where transmission facilities provide renewable wind power energy. This file provides the approximate locations of the approved routes of the CREZ transmission line projects. This file was created by Julie Wicker of TPWD in 2011 by extracting the approved routes from the individual shapefiles of all the studied routes and combining them into one file. The original shapefiles of studied routes varied greatly in accuracy; some were from the working files of project designers, and others were digitized from paper maps. In many (if not all) cases, the studied routes were modified slightly based on landowner requests during the PUC legal proceedings, and those modifications were not provided to TPWD in digital format. For example, if the studied route bisected a pasture, the affected landowner may have requested that the line instead follow their property line. In many cases the transmission company would agree to the request but an updated shapefile would not be provided to TPWD. Detailed descriptions of the modifications to the route are provided in the records of the legal proceedings available on the PUC Interchange website. The Docket number needed to look up the project on the interchange is provided as a field in the shapefile.
Data extracted from http://maps.natureserve.org/landscope1/rest/services/TX/NRG_TX_EnergyZones/MapServer
Copyright Text: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), http://www.landscope.org/texas/tx_map_layers/tx_energy_layers/renewable_energy_zones/24736/