Reference [1] describes a process for the design of lightning protection that transforms the transient experienced by the components during the lightning test transient into the reference transients ...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientists supported by General Electric (GE) and LM Wind Power (a subsidiary of GE) recently reported on a breakthrough in lightning protection technology ...

A new high-voltage generator concept is promising pulse energies on the scale of hundreds of lightning strikes, a claim that instantly vaults it into the realm of the most powerful electrical devices ...

Edward Doherty, Phoenix Contact USA, Harrisburg, Pa. Wind energy has been growing at a rate of 25 to 30% annually, with installations in the U.S. now exceeding 10,000 MW in generation capacity, ...

Every year I spend the holidays with my mother in Wisconsin. Each time I’m there, I look outside her living room window and see the lightning protection rod on the roof of the house across the street.

Residential PV systems are generally installed on the rooftop of residential buildings, with a large metal surface area, higher distance from the ground and an exposed location. Such PV systems are ...