Optimizing the number and locations of turbines in a wind farm addressing energy-noise trade-off: A hybrid approach

•Concurrent resolution of turbine number and locations during micro-siting.•Effect of noise on energy-noise multi-objective optimization is demonstrated.•A hybrid algorithm is proposed utilizing probabilistic and deterministic methods.•∼24% improved performance is achieved over the benchmark case study.•∼29% enhanced efficiency over real-binary genetic algorithm alone can be observed.