Technical Considerations in Siting Wind Developments: Research Meeting

Presentations

December 1-2, 2005
Washington, D.C.

The following presentations will be presented at the Technical Considerations in Siting Wind Developments: Research Meeting on December 1-2, 2005:

Section I: Visual Impacts

Overview of Visual Impact Analysis

• Visual Impacts Introduction
  Martin J. Pasqualetti - Arizona State University

• Western U.S. Perspective on Wind Power
  Martin J. Pasqualetti - Arizona State University

• Visual Impact Assessment - The Eastern Experience
  Rick Benas - Saratoga Associates

• Visual Impacts - UK & European Perspective
  Caroline Stanton - Horner + Maclennan

Physical Turbine Characteristics, Placement, & Modeling

• Visual Characteristics of Wind Turbines
  John Hecklau - Environmental Design and Research

• Tools for Evaluating Wind Turbine Visibility
  Mathew W. Allen, RLA - Saratoga Associates

Alternate Policy Approaches to Technical Considerations

• Visual Analysis of Windfarms - Good Practice Guidance
  Caroline Stanton - Horner + Maclennan

• NY Mitigation List
  Rick Benas - Saratoga Associates

• Wind Power Visual Impact ASsessment: Practical Issues and Links to Research
  Thomas Priestley, Ph.D. - CH2M Hill

Session II: Lighting, FAA Regulations, and Air Hazard Issues

• Obstruction Lighting for Wind Turbine Farms
  Jim Patterson - FAA

• Wind Energy Development and Air Force Flying Operations
  Major Bill Crowe - U.S. Air Force

Session III: Sound

• Wind Turbine Noise - Technology, Measurement Techniques and Standards
  Jeroen van Dam - Windward Engineering

• Infrasound and Psychoacoustics
  Anthony L. Rogers, Ph.D. - University of Massachusetts at Amherst

• Propagation of Noise from Wind Turbines On-Shore and Off-Shore
  Bo Sondergaard, DELTA Danish Electronics, Light & Acoustics

• European Perspectives
  Bo Sondergaard, DELTA Danish Electronics, Light & Acoustics

• Regulations of Noise in the United States
  Mark Bastasch - CH2M Hill

Session IV: Electromagnetic Interference

• Wind Radar Interference
  Gary Seifert - Idaho National Laboratory

• Identifying and Avoiding Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) to Microwave Systems, TV Reception, Telephone Operations from Wind Turbine Facilities
  Lester E. Polisky - Comsearch

Session V: Safety Impacts

• Turbine Design Requirements for Safety
  Brian Smith & Sandy Butterfield

• Ice and Snow - and the Winds do Blow
  Ian Baring-Gould - National Renewable Energy Laboratory