Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Inc. has developed a broad range of experience with regards to the acoustical issues relating to power plants and cogeneration facilities. Typical consulting services for these facilities include setting design criteria, noise recommendations to meet criteria, and reviewing plans and submittals.

• Power Plant, Athens, ME
  Thermo Electron Energy Systems, Athens, ME
  Noise monitoring and analysis for an existing 30 MW wood burning power plant, and the development of recommendations to control induced draft fan noise and noise produced by wood fuel processing equipment.

• Oyster Bay Waste to Energy Facility, Oyster Bay, LI, NY
  Camp Dresser McKee, Edison, NJ
  Environmental noise impact analysis including baseline noise monitoring, report preparation, testimony at public hearings, and adjudication for an urban waste to energy facility including noise analysis and recommendations a temporary landfill expansion.

• Bio Mass Power Plant, E. Rygate, VT
  Decker Energy International, Winter Park, FL
  Environmental noise impact analysis including baseline noise monitoring, report preparation at public hearings, and adjudication.

• Manaus Power Project, Manaus, BRAZIL
  ENSR Engineering and Consulting
  Environmental impact assessment with respect to World Bank and local noise regulations for a new 150 MW Wartsila diesel power plant and three combustion turbine facilities ranging between 80 MW to 150 MW.

• Trigen-Boston Energy Services Power Project
  The Landmark Building, Boston, Massachusetts
  R. G. Vanderweil Engineers, Boston, Massachusetts
  A new base power plant powered by two 2 MW Jenbacher diesel engines with outboard exhaust heat recovery in the basement of an up-scale office/retail building. Major challenges include sound and vibration isolation from a nearby cinema in the building.

• ANP Blackstone Energy, Bellingham, MA
  Town of Bellingham, Massachusetts
  Review of noise control plan for a 500 MW gas turbine near a suburban neighborhood.

• Bethlehem Energy Center, Bethlehem, New York
  ENSR Engineering and Consulting
  Environmental impact assessment, public meetings, and testimony for re-power an existing steam plant with combined-cycle combustion turbines.

• On-Site Thermal Power Plant
  Massachusetts Wastewater Resources Authority, Deer Island, Massachusetts
  R. W. Beck and Associates, Framingham, Massachusetts
  Noise control design for a waste methane/oil burning steam, hot water, and electrical power plant with a 45-dBA limit at 400 feet.