Guidelines and regulations for the siting of industrial wind turbines (IWT) close to human habitation are generally predicated on the need to protect the sleep of the residents. ssumptions that IWT noise can be regarded as similar to other forms of environmental noise (traffic, rail and aircraft) and is masked by ambient noise. There has been no independent verification that these assumptions a...

issues arising from science and technology. Members can obtain further details from the PARLIAMENTARY OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (extension 2840). note POST 109 January 1998 The rising market for mobile phones has been accompanied by concerns over their safety, especially that the radiofrequencies used to transmit signals may cause harm (most notably cancer). Such concerns relate both to ...

This paper presents a multi-objective formulation for optimal siting and sizing of distributed generation (DG) resources in distribution systems in order to minimize the cost of power losses and energy not supplied. The implemented technique is based on a genetic algorithm (GA) and weight method that employed to obtain the best compromise between these costs. Simulation results on 33-bus distri...

The location of individual turbines within a tidal current turbine array e micro-siting e can have a significant impact on the power that the array may extract from the flow. Due to the infancy of the industry and the challenges of exploiting the resource, the economic costs of realising industrial scale tidal current energy projects are significant and should be considered as one of the key dr...