Understanding the Impacts of Wind Turbine Sound: A NEWEEP Webinar

Date: 7/13/2010

Location: MA

Contact: New England Wind Energy Education Project

The New England Wind Energy Education Project (NEWEEP) hosted its second free webinar in its eight-part webinar series. The webinar included a discussion of wind turbine generator sound, permitting issues, and mitigation with a question and answer session. This event was designed for the general public, local officials, facility siting decision-makers, policy-makers, and others interested in objective information on wind energy impacts.

Audio and text versions of the webinar are available (WMV 33.7 MB) Download Windows Media Player. Time: 02:12:44. Text Version. A bibliography is also available for the webinar.

Speakers

Individual speaker presentations are available.

Mark Bastasch (PDF 588 KB), PE, Lead Acoustical Engineer, CH2M Hill
Jim Cummings (PDF 749 KB), Executive Director, Acoustic Ecology Institute
Ken Kaliski (PDF 284 KB), P.E., INCE Bd. Cert., Q.E.P., Director of Environment, Energy, & Acoustics, Resource Systems Group

Discussion Topics

Introduction to sound generation, propagation, attenuation and measurement;
Acoustic modeling techniques and analysis;
Qualitative Considerations — Evaluating the experiential reports of wind farm neighbors;
Non-wind industry methods for addressing sound-related annoyance;
Federal and state sound policies and regulations, and their role in the siting and permitting process;
Mitigation and management;
Areas of ongoing research.

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This information was last updated on 8/17/2010

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