Falmouth Board Member Approves 2700 Foot Wind Turbine Setbacks

Next are quotes from a local newspaper and a meeting of Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Nils Bolgen about the 2700 foot setbacks to commecial megawatt turbines like those in Falmouth Massachusetts. FYI Falmouth is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States

Here are the news media quotes and Nils Bolgen wind program director at MassCEC  

Source : Capenews.net - The Enterprise online Cape Cod Commission Approves Wind Turbine Regulations

Credit : By: Michael C. Bailey Published: 02/18/11
Quotes :

“Royden Richardson, Barnstable’s representative and chairman of the CCC, and Mary L. (Pat) Flynn of Falmouth, the representative from the Barnstable County Board of County Commissioners, voted in favor of the regulations.”

“Establishes for all turbines of 660 kilowatt (KW) capacity or greater a noise setback of 10 times the diameter of the turbine blades, as measured from the base to the nearest receptor -- defined as any occupied residential or commercial property -- or residentially zoned parcel;”
Mr. Niedzwiecki and Ryan Christenberry, CCC planner, explained that the noise issue had to take into account individual projects, which could be affected by factors such as surrounding topography and ambient background noise, and as such it would be problematic to establish a blanket standard for all turbines based on decibel levels

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http://buzzardsbay.org/newspapers/ccc-approves-turbine-regulations-feb2011.pdf

Note # -- Ten Times Diameter of the turbine blades -Nils Bolgen Wind Turbine Program Director Massachusetts Clean Energy Center December 7, 2011

Robert Grace: Nils... Nils Bolgen: ...(unintelligible)...

Robert Grace: ...this is Bob just a point of clarification that you mentioned 17 hundred feet and the slide said, 27 hundred. Could you just clarify there?

Nils Bolgen: ...yes, yes excuse me 27 hundred feet is the revised distance and you can see that here. At the North area of these bogs the Red Circles indicate the three original turbine locations, the Green Circle is the revised location
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http://apps2.eere.energy.gov/wind/windexchange/pdfs/workshops/2011/webinar_neweep_public_impacts.pdf

WIND POWER AS A NEIGHBOR: EXPERIENCE WITH TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING PUBLIC IMPACTS WEBINAR December 7, 2011