Acoustic Profiling of Infrasound and Audible Emissions from Wind Turbines: Field Measurements in Northern Sweden #SWE

Wind turbines produce both audible noise and low-frequency infrasound (below 20 Hz), which, though often inaudible, may have physiological and psychological effects that require further investigation. Previous studies confirm that wind turbines are significant sources of both audible and infrasonic noise. Infrasound is primarily generated by blade-tower interactions and atmospheric turbulence. Sugimoto et al. demonstrated a strong correlation between infrasound levels and rotor speed, highlighting the need for sensitive measurement systems capable of detecting frequencies below 1 Hz. Pierzga and . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/acoustic-profiling-of-infrasound-and-audible-emissions-from-wind-turbines-field-measurements-in-northern-sweden/

Perceived Noise Impact of Transitioning Towards Larger Wind Turbines Using Auralisations #NLD

The human perception of two wind turbines of different sizes, a small NTK turbine and a larger NREL model, was evaluated through their synthetically auralised sound. A wide range of wind speed conditions and observer locations was considered. The simulated sounds were analyzed using equivalent sound pressure levels and psychoacoustic sound quality metrics. Moreover, listening experiments were conducted to evaluate the human response to the same sounds. The least-squares models fitted to the results provided scaling laws for the different . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/perceived-noise-impact-of-transitioning-towards-larger-wind-turbines-using-auralisations/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“(The developers) put up a front like they’re really trying to do something for you, but in the long run they’re going to stick you in the back, it seems, and they want to turn neighbor against neighbor so that they can fight among themselves and then they can sit back and come out the winners.” —Kevin Mittelstadt, Fond du Lac County, Wis., “Wisconsin Wind” (video)


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=164

How Do Residents Experience Wind Turbine Noise? The Results of a Two-Year Study #NLD

Noise from wind turbines is often a significant concern for nearby residents. To better understand the actual impact of wind turbine noise, an interactive app was utilized across several wind projects, allowing residents to easily report their real-time experiences with turbine noise. One such project involves 26 wind turbines in the Netherlands, grouped into three geographically separated clusters, spread over a 26-kilometre stretch along a busy motorway. For two years, starting from the turbines’ initial operation, residents could report noise-related . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/how-do-residents-experience-wind-turbine-noise-the-results-of-a-two-year-study/

Wind turbine infrasound propagation over long distance #NOR

Infrasound with large peak to trough blade pass harmonics in two houses between three large wind turbine farms (WTFs) on the northwest coast of Norway, two single health cases, and a health survey near the WTF in Tysvær, Norway. In late 2019 I was contacted by concerned citizens on the neighbouring island of Hitra, where Norway’s first full scale WTF Hitra 1 with 24 Siemens SWT 2.3 CS turbines with 5.800m² sweep areas had been in commission since 2004. It . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbine-infrasound-propagation-over-long-distance/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Far from being a miracle cure-all for the shortcomings of conventional power generation, wind and solar power exaggerate the symptoms they pretend to address.” —Pierre Desrochers and Andrew Reed, Calgary Sun, Oct. 9, 2019


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=170

Perceived Noise Impact of Transitioning Towards Larger Wind Turbines Using Auralisations #NLD

The human perception of two wind turbines of different sizes, a small NTK turbine and a larger NREL model, was evaluated through their synthetically auralised sound. A wide range of wind speed conditions and observer locations was considered. The simulated sounds were analyzed using equivalent sound pressure levels and psychoacoustic sound quality metrics. Moreover, listening experiments were conducted to evaluate the human response to the same sounds. The least-squares models fitted to the results provided scaling laws for the different . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/perceived-noise-impact-of-transitioning-towards-larger-wind-turbines-using-auralisations/

Wind turbine infrasound propagation over long distance #NOR

Infrasound with large peak to trough blade pass harmonics in two houses between three large wind turbine farms (WTFs) on the northwest coast of Norway, two single health cases, and a health survey near the WTF in Tysvær, Norway. In late 2019 I was contacted by concerned citizens on the neighbouring island of Hitra, where Norway’s first full scale WTF Hitra 1 with 24 Siemens SWT 2.3 CS turbines with 5.800m² sweep areas had been in commission since 2004. It . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbine-infrasound-propagation-over-long-distance/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“It has been said that with all power comes sacrifice and problems. The problem is, my family and other families are the sacrifice.” —Luann Therrien, Apr. 24, 2013, testimony to Vt. Senate Committee for Health and Welfare


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=81

Benefits and Risks of an Offshore Wind Project – The Atlantic Shores South Project off the New Jersey Coast Save Long Beach Island #NJ

Myth and Fact Regarding the Atlantic Shores South Project off Long Beach Island (LBI) and Brigantine, NJ There has been and continues to be much misinformation about the benefits and damage from offshore wind projects. Based on Save LBI’s professional-level research over the past four years regarding the Atlantic Shores project, we provide below what we believe represents both the unfounded and well founded information regarding that project. Many of the issues for that project are found in others. We . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/benefits-and-risks-of-an-offshore-wind-project-the-atlantic-shores-south-project-off-the-new-jersey-coast-save-long-beach-island/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“You can go 150 miles without losing sight of a wind turbine.” —Greg Wortham, Mayor, Sweetwater, Texas, and Director, Texas Wind Energy Clearinghouse, MSNBC, Dec. 14, 2010


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=88

Community Council Convention of the Highland Council Area on the Impact of Major Energy Infrastructure #SCT

14th June 2025 – Beauly Hosted by the Community Councils of Kirkhill & Bunchrew, Kiltarlity, Sleat, Muir of Ord, Strathnairn, Kilmorack and Strathglass Unified Statement of the Convention of Community Councils This Convention supported by over FIFTY COMMUNITY COUNCILS, collectively representing over 72,000 residents within The Highland Council area: RECOGNISES the impact of climate change on our planet but OPPOSES an unjust and unnecessary industrialisation of The Highlands. CALLS for our elected members to URGENTLY support and protect our communities . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/community-council-convention-of-the-highland-council-area-on-the-impact-of-major-energy-infrastructure/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Wind turbines don’t make good neighbors.” —John Zimmerman (Northeast U.S. Representative, Enxco, c. 2004)


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=216

Benefits and Risks of an Offshore Wind Project – The Atlantic Shores South Project off the New Jersey Coast Save Long Beach Island #NJ

Myth and Fact Regarding the Atlantic Shores South Project off Long Beach Island (LBI) and Brigantine, NJ There has been and continues to be much misinformation about the benefits and damage from offshore wind projects. Based on Save LBI’s professional-level research over the past four years regarding the Atlantic Shores project, we provide below what we believe represents both the unfounded and well founded information regarding that project. Many of the issues for that project are found in others. We . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/benefits-and-risks-of-an-offshore-wind-project-the-atlantic-shores-south-project-off-the-new-jersey-coast-save-long-beach-island/

Community Council Convention of the Highland Council Area on the Impact of Major Energy Infrastructure #SCT

14th June 2025 – Beauly Hosted by the Community Councils of Kirkhill & Bunchrew, Kiltarlity, Sleat, Muir of Ord, Strathnairn, Kilmorack and Strathglass Unified Statement of the Convention of Community Councils This Convention supported by over FIFTY COMMUNITY COUNCILS, collectively representing over 72,000 residents within The Highland Council area: RECOGNISES the impact of climate change on our planet but OPPOSES an unjust and unnecessary industrialisation of The Highlands. CALLS for our elected members to URGENTLY support and protect our communities . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/community-council-convention-of-the-highland-council-area-on-the-impact-of-major-energy-infrastructure/

Electricity at Any Price? The Real Cost of Wind Power #SWE

This policy brief critically evaluates the current push for extensive wind power expansion in Sweden. This Policy Brief critically examines the economic and technical assumptions behind the rapid expansion of weather-dependent energy sources such as wind and solar, identifying several systemic risks and shortcomings. Key Findings 1. System Stability Risks A high share of intermittent power (currently 25% wind and 2.5% solar) threatens grid reliability. Essential system functions (instantaneous power, frequency control, reactive power, inertia) are inadequately supported by wind . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/electricity-at-any-price-the-real-cost-of-wind-power/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“It would be cheaper for the electric customers to pay the landowners to not allow wind turbines to be built on their land!” —Glenn Schleede, Va.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=167

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Bat problems are turning out to be a serious issue. Fifty or sixty kills per turbine are significant numbers and are causing concern.” —panelist at Strategic Wind Developers’ Perspective on Wind Development session, Wind Power Finance and Investment Summit, San Diego, Feb. 7, 2008


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=160

Electricity at Any Price? The Real Cost of Wind Power #SWE

This policy brief critically evaluates the current push for extensive wind power expansion in Sweden. This Policy Brief critically examines the economic and technical assumptions behind the rapid expansion of weather-dependent energy sources such as wind and solar, identifying several systemic risks and shortcomings. Key Findings 1. System Stability Risks A high share of intermittent power (currently 25% wind and 2.5% solar) threatens grid reliability. Essential system functions (instantaneous power, frequency control, reactive power, inertia) are inadequately supported by wind . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/electricity-at-any-price-the-real-cost-of-wind-power/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“We finally urge the environmentally conscious public and especially these who share our concern for the need to produce energy responsibly by non-polluting means, to recognise that wind turbines are industrial machines for which there should be no place in our finest landscapes.” —Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=245

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“A solution that is meant to solve one problem by creating other problems is not a real solution. Certainly so when the potential of wind energy in Israel is relatively negligible compared to the potential for harm to nature, which is high.” —Tamar Zandberg, Environmental Protection Minister, Israel


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=6

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“It is time to give serious consideration to the possibility that the “greater good” to be had from grid-connected wind farms is not only minimal, but that it is indeed likely to be non-existent.” —Paul Miskelly, Acoustics Australia, August 2013


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=52

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Once these units are up and running ... the citizens of Bruce County will be left to look at a wind park of industrial proportions for the rest of their lives.” —Robert Emerson, Bruce County Federation of Agriculture, Ontario


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=266

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Soon we “celebrate” the 20,000th wind plant, without replacing even one single small plant of conventional energy.” —Ferdinand Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, Chairman, Bundesverband Landschaftsschutz (Federal Association for Landscape Protection), Germany


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=253

Flight height patterns of a critically endangered insectivorous bat, impacted by wind turbine collision #AUS

Background: Harnessing wind energy, using wind turbines, is a prominent form of renewable energy production. There are, however, biodiversity impacts, including collisions by birds and bats with rotating blades. High levels of mortalities can cause localised and species-level population declines, which is especially significant for threatened species. The height at which species fly is a key collision risk factor. In this study we investigated the flight height patterns of a critically endangered bat to inform mitigations to reduce impacts. Methods: . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/flight-height-patterns-of-a-critically-endangered-insectivorous-bat-impacted-by-wind-turbine-collision/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“These are big structures and they do make sound.” —Paul Gaynor, UPC Wind


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=217

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“People who say ‘You can’t tell me what to do with my property’ are in actuality signing away the control of their property to wind companies in signing these leases.” —Barbara Boone, Md.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=163

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Not being an alternative themselves, it is quite simply spurious to ask for an alternative to replace them.” —Mark Duchamp, Executive Director, European Platform Against Windfarms


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=64

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Wind and solar generation require at least 10 times as much land per unit of power produced than coal- or natural gas–fired power plants, including land disturbed to produce and transport the fossil fuels [and not including land disturbed to produce and transport materials to manufacture and maintain wind and solar facilities —NWW].” —Samantha Gross, Brookings Institution, Renewables, land use, and local opposition in the United States


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=201

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“We’re talking about serious stresses because the turbines turn at around 300 km per hour [tip speed] during rainy weather and it is incredibly difficult to find material that can handle this kind of punishment.” —Jakob Ilsted Bech, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen Post, Nov. 2, 2018


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=141

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“One thing is clear: The environmental community must view wind power projects as they would any other type of industrial development. ” —Martha Frey, Executive Director, Otsego (N.Y.) 2000


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=258

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“People thought they’d get their electric bill reduced, but ours went up and we’re getting nothing. I can’t understand what anybody thought they’d get out of this. This company (FPL) came in, destroyed the top of the mountain, and left us with it.” —Rose Marie Derk, Waymart, Pa.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=235

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Wind turbine noise is becoming a bigger issue in the U.S. It’s been a big issue in Europe for a while because their wind farms have been up longer and they are in more densely populated areas.” —Patrick Moriarty, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, The Free Press, August 12, 2010


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=84

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Big Coal and Big Oil are some of the biggest developers of wind energy. Wind is a tax-sheltering adjunct to their business, not a replacement.” —“Huckle”


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=232

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“A single 555-megawatt gas-fired power plant in California generates more electricity in a year than do all 13,000 of the state’s wind turbines. The gas-fired plant sits atop a mere 15 acres. The 300-foot-tall windmills impact over a hundred thousand acres to provide expensive, intermittent, insufficient energy.” —L. M. Schwartz


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=222

Ultrasonic deterrents provide no additional benefit over curtailment in reducing bat fatalities #OH

Abstract. Wind energy is important for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions but also contributes to global bat mortality. Current strategies to minimize bat mortality due to collision with wind-turbine blades fall broadly into two categories: curtailment (limiting turbine operation during high-risk periods) and deterrence (discouraging bat activity near turbines). Recently, there has been interest in combining these strategies to achieve greater reductions in bat fatalities than either strategy might achieve in isolation. To investigate the effectiveness of combining curtailment with . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/ultrasonic-deterrents-provide-no-additional-benefit-over-curtailment-in-reducing-bat-fatalities/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Promoters of the wind energy craze, absentee landowners, and a few locals hoping for a windfall are about to destroy the soul of the Flint Hills.” —Michael Stubbs, Kan.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=227

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“These people are not as much developers as they are salesmen. Their product sounds good — and green — in theory, but it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” —Shirley Nelson, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Dec. 12, 2005


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=239