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Fehily Timoney and Company (FTC) has been awarded a contract
by the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a Noise
Guidance Note for Assessment of Wind Turbine Operations.
This guidance note will form the third in a series of noise
guidance documents available to Waste and IPPC licence holders.
The purpose of the guidance note will be to provide a clearly
defined procedure for assessing, monitoring and specifying
noise limits and conditions for the operation of a wind turbine(s)
on IPPC or Waste licensed sites. This will allow IPPC and
waste license holders to assess their own site suitability
for wind turbines, based on the likelihood of noise nuisance
arising from wind turbine operations.
The document will be targeted at the IPPC and Waste licensees,
but will also contain information pertinent to local authorities,
consultants, wind energy developers and the general public.
FTC
has provided planning and construction services for clients
for 1,500MW of wind energy in Ireland and has provided environmental
and engineering services to waste and IPPC licence holders
since the company’s inception.
FTC's wind energy clients include Bord Gáis, Bord
Na Móna and Airtricity, in addition to a significant
number of smaller scale commercial and community wind farm
projects.
FTC is assisted by Hayes McKenzie in the preparation of this
guidance note. Hayes Mc Kenzie is internationally recognised
for its work in wind turbine noise monitoring and assessment
- and its recent publications and presentations include work
on the application of wind shear and other parameters in the
Prediction and Assessment of Wind Turbine Noise for the Institute
of Acoustics Bulletin (March/April 2009).
Sinéad McAleer, Senior Scientist with Fehily Timoney and
Company, is the contract Project Manager (sinead.mcaleer@ftco.ie)
and is available to answer queries on this project.
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