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Wind Power: Noise

Question for Department for Energy and Climate Change

UIN 226005, tabled on 3 March 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what guidance he has provided to planning authorities on the relevance of amplitude modulation in applications for land-based wind turbines in advance of the review of evidence on wind turbine amplitude modulation his Department is appointing acoustics experts to conduct.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

9 March 2015

DECC officials intend to issue an invitation to tender shortly, in order to appoint acoustics experts to review the evidence on wind turbine amplitude modulation (AM) with a view to providing advice on how appropriate AM thresholds might be set in planning conditions.

Answered by

Department for Energy and Climate Change
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