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MassCEC Smoking Gun Wind Turbine Memo
MassCEC Memo Admits Wind Turbine Noise Testing Mistakes
MassCEC Smoking Gun Memo
MassCEC Memo Admits Wind Turbine Noise Testing Mistakes
These notes from the Mass Clean Energy Center (CEC) Board of Directors shows they are aware of acoustic noise mistakes
April 2, 2013 Memo from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to Falmouth Select Board & Town Manager
The Massachusetts in a memo to the Town of Falmouth about renewable energy credits also in the last half of the memo admitted the noise testing prior to the installation of Falmouth Wind 1 over-estimated the likely acoustic impact, that study did not include a detailed acoustic analysis based upon sampling of ambient acoustic conditions
The following are quotes from a local news item from April 2013 :
“MTC-commissioned feasibility study for Falmouth over-estimated the likely acoustic impact”
“According to the MassCEC memo, MassDEP has conducted regulatory compliance testing of the Wind 1 turbine at night and concluded that the sound impact from the turbine does exceed state noise policy under certain conditions – while MassDEP monitoring during daytime found no exceedances of state noise policy.
MassCEC also said there are unique circumstances in Falmouth, so a decision in that town would not set a precedent for others in the state.
“Falmouth Wind 1 was one of the earliest municipally-owned megawatt scale wind turbines installed in Massachusetts.
Even though the original MTC-commissioned feasibility study for Falmouth over-estimated the likely acoustic impact, that study did not include a detailed acoustic analysis based upon sampling of ambient acoustic conditions (as is our current, more rigorous practice) which might have identified a potential exceedance of the 10 decibel limit,” the memo reads.
“The Falmouth wind turbines are of an older design which does not offer ‘low noise operations’ or other retrofit options.
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truncated due to possible copyright] click here to read the entire article : https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/04/03/details-on-masscecs-april-2-memo-on-falmouth-turbines/
Credit: THE BULLETIN | Posted Apr 03, 2013 www.wickedlocal.com
