Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine Noise
A questionnaire inquiry on response to wind turbine noise was carried out on 361 subjects living in the vicinity of 8 wind farms. Current mental health status of respondents was assessed using Goldberg General Health Questionnaire GHQ-12. For areas where respondents lived, $A$-weighted sound pressur...
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| description | A questionnaire inquiry on response to wind turbine noise was carried out on 361 subjects living in the vicinity of 8 wind farms. Current mental health status of respondents was assessed using Goldberg General Health Questionnaire GHQ-12. For areas where respondents lived, $A$-weighted sound pressure levels (SPLs) were calculated as the sum of the contributions from the wind power plants in the specific area.
Generally, 33.0% of respondents were annoyed outdoors by wind turbine noise at the calculated $A$-weighted SPL of 31–50$\,$dB, while indoors the noise was annoying to 21.3% of them. The proportion of subjects evaluating the noise produced by operative wind turbines as annoying decreased with increasing the distance from the nearest wind turbine (27.6% at the distance of 400–800$\,$m vs 14.3% at the distance above 800$\,$m, $p$ < 0.016). On the other hand, the higher was the noise level, the greater was the percentage of annoyed respondents (14.0% at SPL up to 40 dB vs 28.1% at SPL of 40–45$\,$dB, $p$ < 0.016). Besides noise and distance categories, subjective factors, such as general attitude to wind turbines, sensitivity to landscape littering and current mental health status, were found to have significant impact on the perceived annoyance. About 50% of variance in annoyance rating might be explained by the aforesaid subjective factors. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7748f5d336224fbf9936d261b8efef792025-08-20T03:11:54ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2014-12-0139110.2478/aoa-2014-0010Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine NoiseMałgorzta PAWLACZYK-ŁUSZCZYŃSKA0Adam DUDAREWICZ1Kamil ZABOROWSKI2Małgorzta ZAMOJSKA-DANISZEWSKA3Małgorzta WASZKOWSKA4Department of Physical Hazards, Nofer Institute of Occupational MedicineDepartment of Physical Hazards, Nofer Institute of Occupational MedicineDepartment of Physical Hazards, Nofer Institute of Occupational MedicineDepartment of Physical Hazards, Nofer Institute of Occupational MedicineDepartment of Occupational Psychology, Nofer Institute of Occupational MedicineA questionnaire inquiry on response to wind turbine noise was carried out on 361 subjects living in the vicinity of 8 wind farms. Current mental health status of respondents was assessed using Goldberg General Health Questionnaire GHQ-12. For areas where respondents lived, $A$-weighted sound pressure levels (SPLs) were calculated as the sum of the contributions from the wind power plants in the specific area. Generally, 33.0% of respondents were annoyed outdoors by wind turbine noise at the calculated $A$-weighted SPL of 31–50$\,$dB, while indoors the noise was annoying to 21.3% of them. The proportion of subjects evaluating the noise produced by operative wind turbines as annoying decreased with increasing the distance from the nearest wind turbine (27.6% at the distance of 400–800$\,$m vs 14.3% at the distance above 800$\,$m, $p$ < 0.016). On the other hand, the higher was the noise level, the greater was the percentage of annoyed respondents (14.0% at SPL up to 40 dB vs 28.1% at SPL of 40–45$\,$dB, $p$ < 0.016). Besides noise and distance categories, subjective factors, such as general attitude to wind turbines, sensitivity to landscape littering and current mental health status, were found to have significant impact on the perceived annoyance. About 50% of variance in annoyance rating might be explained by the aforesaid subjective factors.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1525wind turbinesnoiseannoyance. |
| spellingShingle | Małgorzta PAWLACZYK-ŁUSZCZYŃSKA Adam DUDAREWICZ Kamil ZABOROWSKI Małgorzta ZAMOJSKA-DANISZEWSKA Małgorzta WASZKOWSKA Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine Noise Archives of Acoustics wind turbines noise annoyance. |
| title | Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine Noise |
| title_full | Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine Noise |
| title_fullStr | Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine Noise |
| title_full_unstemmed | Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine Noise |
| title_short | Annoyance Related to Wind Turbine Noise |
| title_sort | annoyance related to wind turbine noise |
| topic | wind turbines noise annoyance. |
| url | https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1525 |
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