Guidelines for Selecting Wind Turbine Sites

摘要

This article reviews a number of wind turbine sites with known health problems and sound studies conducted by consultants for governments, the wind turbine owner, or the local residents. The purpose is determine if a set of simple guidelines using dBA and dBC sound levels can serve as "safe" siting guidelines. Findings of the review and recommendations for sound limits are presented, followed by a discussion of how the proposed limits would have affected existing sites where people have demonstrated pathologies apparently related to wind turbine sound.