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Yell one of the largest Shetland islands just off the North East coast of Scotland presents a wonderful challenge for renewable energy. The existing wind farm on Shetland has the highest utilised production of any wind farm in the world. The North Yell Development Council has engaged the services of the SgurrEnergy noise team to assist with the complex situation of smaller turbines close to existing housing which requires a considered design to meet recognised noise planning criteria. SgurrEnergy’s noise team analysed the proposed project looking at issues such as topography, wind turbine noise outputs and proximity of sensitive receptors. After a successful meeting with the Council representatives a methodology was developed to monitor noise at sensitive receptors agreed with the local environmental health officer. At present this monitoring exercise is being carried out with the data from noise instrumentation correlated with wind speed and direction data from a nearby meteorological mast and analysed at the SgurrEnergy office.
This project demonstrates SgurrEnergy’s noise team’s ability to work on projects as diverse in size and scale as this three to five turbine layout in North Yell to the other end of the spectrum on some of the largest wind farms in the UK. For further details please contact Eric Donnelly on 0141 433 4670 or eric.donnelly@sgurrenergy.com
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