Title
Predicting annoyance by wind turbine noise
Author
Janssen, S.A.
Vos, H.
Eisses, A.R.
Pedersen, E.
TNO Bouw en Ondergrond TNO Industrie en Techniek
Publication year
2010
Abstract
While wind turbines have beneficial effects for the environment, they inevitably generate environmental noise. In order to protect residents against unacceptable levels of noise, exposure-response relationships are needed to predict the expected percentage of people annoyed or highly annoyed at a given level of wind turbine noise. Exposure-response relationships for wind turbine noise were derived on the basis of available data, using the same method that was previously used to derive relationships for transportation noise and industrial noise. Data from surveys in Sweden and the Netherlands were used to achieve relationships between L den and annoyance, both indoors and outdoors at the dwelling. It is shown that a given percentage of annoyance by wind turbine noise is expected at much lower levels of L den than the same percentage of annoyance by for instance road traffic noise. Results were used to guide new noise regulation for wind turbines in the Netherlands.
Subject
Earth & Environment Physics & Electronics
UES - Urban Environment & Safety AS - Acoustics & Sonar
EELS - Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences TS - Technical Sciences
Environment Acoustics and Audiology
Annoyance
Exposure-response
Noise regulation
Wind turbine noise
Annoyance
Beneficial effects
Environmental noise
Industrial noise
Noise regulations
Road traffic noise
Noise pollution
Wind turbines
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TNO identifier
466472
Publisher
The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA, Washington, D.C.
ISBN
9781617823961
Source
39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010, 13-16 June 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, 1301-1305
Document type
conference paper