Armenias best wind resource areas are generally located on top of the higher ridges and mountains or in wind corridors such as mountain passes.

Wind resources monitoring projects began as early as 1990. But the modern quality projects were carried out started from 1998 with the implementation of Armenian-Dutch and Armenian-USA projects in Northern and North-Western regions of Armenia. The results of the most recent studies done by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of the U.S. indicate that more than 1,000 km2 of Armenia's territory has good to excellent wind resource potential. Should a well-grounded assumption be accepted that it would be possible to derive 5 MW/km2, the total wind resource potential would be estimated at 5,000 MW.

The first wind farm in Armenia - the 2.6 MW "Lori 1" wind farm - was put in operation in December 2005. It is located at Bazuin mountains, on Pushkin pass (Lori marz of Armenia).