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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.