Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Acoustics

Increasing awareness of the issues of climate change and sustainable energy use has led to growing levels of interest in small-scale, decentralised power generation. Small-scale wind power has seen signi_cant growth in the last ten years, partly due to the political support for renewable energy and the introduction of Feed In Tari_s, which pay home owners for generating their own electricity. Due to their ability to respond quickly to changing wind conditions, smallscale vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have been proposed as an e_cient solution for deployment in built up areas, where…