Wind Energy Environmental Impacts Assessment

Hendrikson & Ko carries out preliminary surveys to determine impacts of wind farms or individual windmills and compiles environmental impact assessments (also pre-assessments) for planned wind farms.

We use internationally widespread and highly valued special software WindPRO (EMD International A/S Denmark) to assess impacts from wind farms.

For wind farms planning process we offer variety of services:

• Comprehensive, thematic and detailed plans for wind farms, with environmental impact assessment, if required;
• Pre-assessments to determine significant impacts in early stages;
• Optimal solutions for wind farm positioning to minimize the negative impacts near residential areas and use wind resource efficiently (excluding direct productivity calculations);
• Noise modelling and noise maps for noise originating from wind farms;
• Example of noise map
• Assessing and modelling of shading effects, compiling shade maps and shade calendars (shade occurrence depending on date and time);