{"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":"2026-05-28"},"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 per market (m/s). 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":"Cape Town","value":6.32},{"label":"Perth","value":6.29},{"label":"New York","value":5.31},{"label":"Reykjavik","value":5.25},{"label":"London","value":5.01},{"label":"Berlin","value":4.51},{"label":"Cairo","value":4.04},{"label":"Riyadh","value":3.91},{"label":"Jodhpur","value":3.56},{"label":"Jakarta","value":3.11},{"label":"Los Angeles","value":2.83},{"label":"Bogota","value":1.81}]},"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."}