Environmental Impact Assessment
Noise
Wind turbines generate noise that can be heard, dependent on wind speed and direction, a few hundred metres away. However care is taken to the design a wind farm that does not cause noise nuisance.
Predictions of wind turbine noise have been made, based upon a measured sound power level for a 3 Mega-Watt wind turbine and a calculation procedure which is considered to be worst-case. The assessment shows that the predicted wind turbine noise levels at residential locations meet the specified ETSU-R-97 noise limits under all conditions.
The best way to discover what a wind farm is like is to see and hear an operational wind farm for yourself.
If you are a nearby resident and missed out on the previous trips to visit our operational Burton Wold Wind Farm (near Burton Latimer, Kettering) but would still like to go, please contact us.
Click here to view the Environmental Statement Documents
Click here to view the Supplementary Environmental Information
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An indicative table of noise levels from every day activities, taken from The Scottish Office, Environment Department, Planning Advice Note, PAN 45, Annex A: Wind Power, A.27. Renewable Energy Technologies, August 1994
Source/Activity |
Indicative noise
level aB (A) |
Threshold of hearing |
0 |
Rural night-time background |
20-40 |
Quiet bedroom |
35 |
Wind farm at 350m |
35-45 |
Car at 40mph at 100m |
55 |
Busy general office |
60 |
Truck at 30mph at 100m |
65 |
Pneumatic drill at 7m |
95 |
Jet aircraft at 250m |
105 |
Threshold of pain |
140 |
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