JEDI Wind Models

The Jobs and Economic Development Impacts (JEDI) Wind model allows the user to estimate economic development impacts from wind power generation projects. JEDI Wind has default information that can be used to run a generic impacts analysis assuming wind industry averages.

User Inputs

Model users are encouraged to enter as much project-specific data as possible, including these inputs:

• Construction materials and labor costs
• Turbine, tower, blade costs, and local content information
• Utility interconnection, engineering, land easements, and permitting costs
• Annual operating and maintenance costs (personnel, materials, and services)
• Tax, land lease, and financing parameters

Download JEDI Wind Energy Models

Using MS Excel 2007

• When opening the spreadsheet, you may be prompted with a security warning asking if you would like to "Enable Macros." Please select "Enable Macros" for the spreadsheet to run properly.
• Please make sure that the security setting on your computer is not set to "High." Set the level to "Medium" or "Low" and then re-open the JEDI worksheet. You can reset to a higher level when you have finished using the JEDI model.
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• If you have questions, please contact JEDISupport@nrel.gov.

User Agreement

Your User Agreement can be found in the Excel spreadsheet in a separate tab. We do not share or make available any user information.

JEDI Wind Updates and Release Notes

NREL's JEDI team continues to update JEDI to provide user-friendly features and current information. Some of the model's categories have been re-labeled to reflect a more accurate description of these impacts and facilitate user interpretation of model results.

Results for jobs, earnings, and output during the construction period:

• Project Development and On-site Labor (re-labeled from Direct)
• Turbine and Supply Chain Impacts (re-labeled from Indirect)
• Induced Impacts

Impacts during the operating periods:

• On-site Labor (re-labeled from Direct)
• Local Revenue and Supply Chain Impacts (re-labeled from Indirect)
• Induced Impacts

Revision details are available in the JEDI Wind Release Notes.

• July 2009 Model number W1.09.04e
• June 2009 Model number W1.09.03e
• December 2008 Model

Note: The JEDI OffShore Wind Model (rel. OSW08.19.16) model contains a circular reference. Model users must set Excel calculation options to "Automatic Workbook Calculation" and "Enable iterative calculation" must be checked, for this model to work properly.

Contact

For questions regarding the JEDI Wind Energy Model, please contact: JEDIsupport@nrel.gov