Lightning protection and grounding system analysis encompasses the study of how electrical discharges from the atmosphere interact with man-made structures and their earthing arrangements. At its core ...

The rapidly developing industry of renewable power generation can be compared to an hourglass. Inexhaustible supplies of free resources — sun and wind — are converted into a corresponding outflow of ...

Electrical substations utilize direct lightning stroke shielding to help ensure proper operation, and to prevent costly damages and extended outages. While modern substation designs and equipment make ...

What is ground-fault protection? The answer depends on whether you are talking about ground-fault protection of equipment or ground-fault protection of people. Just because ground-fault protection is ...

Megger has enhanced its KC series of test leads used with wind turbines. KC-C test leads are lightweight, making them safe for use at heights, and are designed to work with Megger’s DLRO2 low ...

Okay, I've found out from PolyPhaser that the lightning arrestors on the network referred to in this thread I posted recently were *not* installed correctly. The current setup has the towers grounded ...

There was a recent lightning incident where fifty people were hurt while standing on wet soil at the moment of a nearby lightning strike that caused an electrical current to flow through the ground.

Like a high-tech hammer of Thor, a powerful laser can grab hold of a lightning bolt and reroute its path through the sky. In a mountaintop experiment, such a laser bent lightning toward a lightning ...