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Rassemblement anti-éoliennes – 18 janvier – plage de Kerhillio – Erdeven
| Pour bien démarrer l’année Une petite lutte militante Si elle est juste Parce que ça a du sens Une impression d’être utile Une petite satisfaction personelle, aussi Une idée du mieux Pour le bien commun Avec un collectif Unis, on est plus fort Un peu moins seul Et ça, c’est bon. |
le dimanche 18 janvier 2026, de 12 à 17 h.
| Les “pour”, les “contre”, Bonne année à tous |
Conférence sur l’éolien et ses impacts
Vergezac. L’éolien et ses impacts sur notre territoire.
Le Collectif des associations Regards de la Durande, Horizon Siaugues et les Amis du Château du Thiolent, organise une conférence-débat consacrée à l’éolien samedi 10 janvier à 14 heures, à la salle polyvalente.
« Cette rencontre a pour objectif d’apporter un éclairage documenté et accessible sur l’éolien et ses impacts sur le territoire. »
Elle sera animée par Sioux Berger, journaliste spécialisée dans les sujets d’écologie et de bien-être, autrice des livres Le prix du vent et Les pentes , parus en 2022 et Stéphane Le Béchec, agriculteur.
La conférence sera précédée par l’intervention de Christian-Louis Bourdier, ingénieur retraité du CNRS et Denis Trincal, également ingénieur en retraite, concernant les aspects scientifiques, financiers et politiques.
Un temps d’échange avec le public et les intervenants sera réservé en fin de séance avant le verre de l’amitié.
Publié le 02 janvier 2026 à leveil.fr
AVEL NEVEZ ou la tragédie des pales
Voici l’histoire d’un vent qui devait sauver le monde et qui se perdit dans l’âme des hommes. À Keriniz, sur la côte bretonne hantée par les mégalithes et les silences, des machines immenses s’élèvent, promises au progrès. Elles captent le souffle de la mer, le convertissent en chiffres, en espoirs, en mensonges.
Léna, ingénieure idéaliste, croit œuvrer pour la lumière. Goulven, journaliste cynique, guette l’ombre derrière les discours. Pêcheurs, élus, rêveurs et calculateurs – tous sont emportés dans le sillage de ces pales blanches qui sculptent un nouveau paysage, et avec lui, une nouvelle mélancolie.
Entre le granit et l’acier, entre le chant du large et le ronron des données, se joue une tragédie moderne : celle du choix qui n’en est pas un, de la raison d’État qui étouffe les raisons du cœur, de la beauté froide qui remplace la beauté sauvage.
Avel Nevez ou la Tragédie des Pales est le récit d’une conversion à l’envers : non pas celle des ténèbres à la lumière, mais celle de la certitude au doute. C’est le livre des âmes qui apprennent à vivre avec le fantôme du progrès, à habiter les ruines de leurs propres illusions.
Et toujours, en fond sonore, le vent. Celui qui ne sert à rien. Celui qui, lui, reste libre.
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0FSRG5Q7X
The Book of Bogs
Although 80 per cent of Britain’s bogs and peatlands have been drained, stripped or irreversibly damaged over the last 200 years, they still contain more carbon than all the forests in UK, France and Germany combined. Often viewed as wasteland, these landscapes are brimming with biodiversity and play an essential role in how we mitigate the extremes of climate change. Walshaw Moor in West Yorkshire is one such place.
Renowned for its blanket peat bog, Walshaw Moor is a breeding habitat for endangered ground-nesting birds, such as curlews, lapwings and golden plovers. It is also the inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the poetry of Ted Hughes, and is much-loved for its network of footpaths threading into the Upper Calder Valley and the South Pennines. In recent years, however, the future of Walshaw Moor has been threatened by a proposal to build England’s largest onshore wind farm.
The Book of Bogs began as a community response to this threat, and has grown beyond the Moor into a wider celebration and campaign for bogs and other peatland ecologies. With original poetry and essays from over 40 established authors and new voices, the collection combines natural history, archaeology, culture, myth and adventure, offering insight into why these landscapes are at the forefront of debates about energy and land use. The book delves into the boglands like never before, relishing in the sweep of heather, the glow of moss and the stillness of peat waters.
Paperback, with flaps. Published September 2025.
Announcements, Law, Noise, U.K. •
Source: U.K. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Open consultation: Assessment and rating of wind turbine noise guidance: proposed updates
We are seeking views on updates to guidance on the assessment of noise from onshore wind turbines across the UK.
This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 29 August 2025.
Consultation description:
Technical guidance for the assessment of noise emissions from onshore wind turbines provides advice to local authorities across the UK on:
- appraising planning applications for onshore wind developments
- aiding deployment of suitable onshore wind developments
- ensuring noise impacts are robustly controlled
The existing guidance dates back to 1996. In 2023, a government commissioned independent scoping review indicated that it would benefit from updating.
We have worked closely with acoustic experts and leading scientists to produce these proposed updates which aim to align the guidance with:
- available evidence
- developments in turbine technology and wind turbine noise assessment methodologies
- government policies on noise and net zero
This consultation seeks views on the proposed updates:
- Assessment and rating of wind turbine noise: Draft updated guidance – PDF | HTML
- Consultation document: Updated guidance for the assessment and rating of wind turbine noise – PDF | HTML
Please respond using the online response form where possible. Use the email address for queries only, or if you need to respond using an alternative method.
11th International Conference on Wind Turbine Noise: Programme
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DAY 1 Tuesday 10 June
Session 1 – Blade and airfoil noise I (Chair: Michaela Herr)
On the detection of vortex generator noise influence using beamforming in a large aeroacoustic wind tunnel – Gelot, Matthieu
Aeroacoustic investigation of leading edge erosion in a wind tunnel – Lylloff, Oliver
Multi-Scale Turbulence Structures in Grid-Generated Turbulence for Leading Edge Noise Prediction – Sharma, Sparsh
Investigation of acoustics inside wind turbine blades and how it effects the outside – Schneider, Lukas
Modifications to BPM model to incorporate trailing edge noise reduction by porous add-ons – Caboni, Marco
Session 2 – Blade and airfoil noise II (Chair: Oliver Lylloff )
A Native GPU CFD solver to predict trailing edge noise of wind turbine blades – Reese, Hauke
Turbulent boundary layer trailing-edge noise reduction with permeable blade extensions at full-scale conditions – Hartog, Friso
Session 3 – Rotor noise models I (Chair: Oliver Lylloff )
A High-Fidelity, Multi-Disciplinary Framework for Wind Turbine Aero-acoustic and Vibro-acoustic Noise Reduction – van der Velden, Wouter
Aeroacoustic investigation into the X-Rotor vertical-axis wind turbine using lattice-Boltzmann very large eddy simulation (LB-VLES) – Wu, Yan
Design and Validation of Trailing-Edge Serration to achieve 3dB Reduction of Wind Turbine Noise – Kamruzzaman, Mohammad
Session 4 – Rotor noise models II (Chair: TBA)
Validation of a wind turbine noise high-frequency prediction tool – Gimeno Garcia, Andres
Investigation of individual pitch control for infrasound noise reduction from wind turbines – Shah, Anik Hirenkumar
Blade-tower interaction noise prediction using a simplified 2D vortex model – Bertagnolio, Franck
Session 5 – Tonalities (Chair: TBA)
Comparing Narrow-Band and 1/3-Octave Band Methods for Detecting Tonal Wind Turbine Noise – Boon, Jaap
A feasibility study on Neural Networks for Rating Prominent Tones in Noise – Søndergaard, Lars Sommer
Reception at Copenhagen City Hall
DAY 2 Wednesday 11 June
Session 6 – Low-frequency noise (Chair: TBA)
Wind turbine infrasound propagation over long distance – Crozier, Steven
Long term low frequency noise measurements near wind park – Dijkstra, Mike
The effects of low frequency noise considering the real complainants and real sites, and methodology for surveys of residents and development of mobile devices for good understanding on sound at wind turbine sites. – Yamada, Shinji
Acoustic Profiling of Infrasound and Audible Emissions from Wind Turbines: Field Measurements in Northern Sweden – Chilo, José
Session 7 – Noise mitigation (Chair: Mark Bastasch)
Production Optimized Noise Curtailment on Wind Farms – Sørensen, Thomas
Impact of a Novel Flexible Serrated Trailing Edge in the Reduction of Far-Field Wind Turbine Noise – Church, Ryan
A comparison of turbine mitigation methods to achieve an ‘n’ decibel reduction in sound power level – Marshall, Kira
Session 8 – Noise assessment I (Chair: TBA)
Frequency Content of Measured Wind Farm Noise Levels and Band-Limited Regressions – Levet, Tom
Experimental validation of a prediction model of wind turbine noise variability – Kayser, Bill
Long-term Wind Farm Noise assessment over different meteorological conditions – Lowe, Krispian
Unwanted event removal and background noise characterization in wind turbine noise – Fredianelli, Luca
Procedure for predicting noise impact of new and repowered wind farms – Bernardini, Marco
Session 9 – Propagation (Chair: Luca Fredianelli)
Numerical investigation of noise propagation in wind farms and the influence of wind turbine layouts – Colas, Jules
Developing a coastal sound speed profile for propagation models – McKeown, Eugene
Open forum #1 – Wind Turbine Noise Prediction
Status and what needs to be improved (Tentative)
Moderator/Introduction by: TBA
Panelists: TBA
DAY 3 Thursday 12 June
Session 10 – Noise assessment II (Chair: Krispian Lowe)
Examining the Effects of Atmospheric Parameters on Sound Power Level Measurements from Wind Turbines:
Findings from Parallel Measurements in the IEC 61400-11 Reference Position and Extended Distances – Christensen, Niels Frederik
An investigation of immission spectrum resulting from increasing turbine rotor diameter – Garnett, Merlin
Estimating wind turbine noise in Swedish national noise map over green areas – Ögren, Mikael
Measurement of directivity patterns of a commercial wind turbine under yaw offset – Finez, Arthur
Acoustic and SCADA data for the wind turbine noise level estimation – Rkhiss, Abdelazyz
Session 11 – Perception and annoyance I (Chair: TBA)
Perceived noise impact of transitioning towards larger wind turbines using auralisations – Pockelé, Josephine Siebert
Psychological and physiological responses to amplitude-modulated low-frequency sounds – Matsuda, Hiroshi
How do Residents Experience Wind Turbine Noise? The Results of a Two-Year Study – Koppen, Erik
Session 12 – Perception and annoyance II (Chair: Lars Søndergaard)
Influence of Ambient Noise in Sound Quality Assessment of Auralised Wind Turbine Noise – Pockelé, Josephine Siebert
Estimating the effects of Wind Turbine Noise on annoyance and cognitive performance – O’Hora, Denis
The role of the planning process for wind turbine noise annoyance – results from multiple cross-sectional and longitudinal field studies – Müller, Florian J.Y.
Session 13 – Planning (Chair: Lars Søndergaard)
Prediction Based Noise Limits and Why They Should Not Be Used When Consenting Wind Farms – Baldwin, Jason
Planning conditions – what should they cover? – Mackay, James
Session 14 – General aspects (Chair: Franck Bertagnolio (Tentative))
Overview of the results of the PIBE project (Predicting the Impact of wind turbine noise) – Ecotiere, David
20 Years of Turbine Noise – Bowdler, Dick
Open forum #2 – TBD
Introduction by: TBA
Panelists: TBA
DAY 4 Friday 13 June – Risø Campus (Niels Bohr auditorium)
These 2 hour-long Friday forums will be free to the public via Zoom, starting 15 minutes before the 1st forum. Click here.
10:00 a.m.: Open forum #3 – Sound Characteristics: Amplitude Modulation and Tonalities
Moderator/Introduction by: Matthew Cand
Panelists: TBA
11:30 a.m.: Open forum #4 – The Noise We Hear, the Feelings We Hold: Exploring the Complexity of Wind Turbine Noise Reactions
Moderator/Introduction by: Denis O’Hora
Panelists: TBA
Technical visit to the Poul La Cour wind tunnel
Introduction by: Christian Bak
Eleventh International Conference on Wind Turbine Noise
June 10–13, 2025
The WTN 2025 conference will be held at the Scandic Kødbyen hotel, Skelbækgade 3A, Copenhagen V.
Important dates:
February 2, 2025: Abstract submission deadline
February 17, 2025: Abstract notification
March 30, 2025: Paper deadline
April 13, 2025: Paper notification
