Lightning protection of wind turbines - A comparison of lightning data & IEC 61400-24

1st International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply, SUPERGEN '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Peesapati, Vidyadhar ^a   Cotton, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data analysis; High voltage and high current; Lightning; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LIGHTNING; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; WIND POWER;

HIGH CURRENTS; LIGHTNING DATUM; LIGHTNING STRIKES; TEST LEVELS; UNPREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENTS; WIND FARM;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 77951441549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SUPERGEN.2009.5348088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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