About the seminars
In early March 2010, Standards New Zealand released the new Standard for noise from wind farms (NZS6808:2010 Acoustics – Wind Farm Noise).
The new Wind Farm Noise Standard draws on 10 years' practical experience of wind farm development in New Zealand to refine and enhance the recommendations in the existing Standard (NZS6808:1998) for predicting, measuring and assessing of sound from wind turbines, as well as setting noise limits.
The RMLA and NZWEA, with the support of EECA, Standards New Zealand and the New Zealand Acoustical Society, ran seminars through out NZ that covered:
- The status of wind energy in New Zealand
- The new Wind Farm Noise Standard, including its recommendations, why it was updated, differences between the new Standard and its predecessor, and its approach to controversial issues such as health effects, audibility and particularly quiet residential locations.
- How the Standard will work in practice, using a wind farm to provide an example.
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(Presentations are downloadable as PDF files, approximately 2.5 MB each)The presenters
Dr Stephen Chiles is chairman of the Standards New Zealand committee that produced the 2010 revision of the wind farm noise standard NZS 6808. He had previously been instrumental in producing the 2008 revisions of the general environmental noise standards NZS 6801 and 6802. Stephen is a Principal, Acoustics Engineer with URS New Zealand and leads the URS acoustics practice in the Asia Pacific region. The majority of his current work relates to consenting and design of large infrastructure projects such as roading and wind farms. He is the independent acoustics professional advisor to the NZ Transport Agency.
Fraser Clark joined the New Zealand Wind Energy Association as its Chief Executive in September 2006. Fraser has overall responsibility for NZWEA's activities in promoting, encouraging and enabling the uptake of wind energy in New Zealand, both within the wind industry and to a wide range of stakeholders including Government, regulators and the public. He leads NZWEA involvement in resource consenting and planning processes. He has authored submissions for the Association on the recently proposed amendments to the RMA and on related legislation such as proposed National Policy Statements (NPS) for transmission and renewable electricity generation. Mr Clark's experience in the energy sector incorporates the development of new generation projects, the electricity market within which they operate and the end-use of that electricity. Fraser holds a bachelor's degree with honours in Chemical and Process Engineering from Canterbury University.