## Wind Sense: Generating Wind Turbine Noise Annoyance Maps for Ireland ## This project will generate Wind Turbine Noise (WTN) annoyance maps of Irish wind farms based on novel sound quality models of the prevalence of WTN features around candidate wind farms and the impact of these features on annoyance. * Download the final project report [here][1]. * The data management plan is [here][2] * Check out more outputs [here][3] (including articles and presentation slides) ### Background ### Wind energy is clean, economically profitable and environmentally friendly, and as such is one of the most viable sources of renewable energy across the world. Significant growth over the last 20 years has seen wind farms boosting the global renewable energy capacity, but with this growth comes increasing concern related to noise from wind farms. Since Ireland’s first wind farm development in 1992, wind farms have been sited and their activities regulated in terms of the noise exposure-response guidelines, in which exposure is measured in terms of a sound pressure level. Since then, the science of wind turbine noise (WTN) has improved and the psycho-acoustics of WTN has identified features of WTN other than noise level per se (e.g., amplitude modulation) that induce annoyance. However, the prevalence and impact of these features on Irish wind farm communities has not been assessed. [1]: https://osf.io/9c426 [2]: https://osf.io/wsj2p [3]: https://osf.io/yezxm/