Project Goals

 

Goals of MNSOWTA:

    1. To provide technically defensible data and review of the source and characteristics of wind turbine generated sound.

    2. To provide techniques for measuring wind turbine noise and recommendations for best practices when measuring for wind energy development.

    3. To provide the wind energy industry with useful information on how humans respond physically, emotionally, and psychologically to wind turbine generated sound. 

    4. To provide unbiased information about wind turbine noise by completing the project under the guidance of a transparent advisory group as well as creating and maintaining a public website that details the project.