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The SWERA Renewable energy Resource EXplorer (RREX) is an on-line Geographic Information System tool for viewing renewable resource data. Through this interactive system, users can view several renewable resource data sets available through SWERA.

Generally speaking, the data sets that are at a finer resolution (smaller grid cells, such as 1 km to 10 km) will be the most useful in determining the suitability of renewable energy systems for a given location as they can better capture variations around smaller geographic features. As there is currently not global coverage of high-resolution resource data, RREX also includes lower-resolution global data sets. Though these will not adequately capture the details of resource availability at a given site, they can provide users with generalized patterns of solar and wind resources. 		  SWERA IMS
 
 
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Instructions
When using the RREX tool, users can select which data sets are visible by checking and unchecking the boxes to the left of each data set name. The data sets are categorized by resolution with the “high” resolution providing the most detailed spatial depiction to SWERA users, and the “moderate” and “low” resolution being suitable for comparison and generalized visualization of resource distribution across larger regions. Users can view monthly data values from all available data sets at a given site by clicking on the desired location on the map and choosing the “Graph Data” option.