Wind farm grounding system design for transient currents

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2004-2010

  Ukar, Olatz ^a   Zamora, Inmaculada ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Grounding systems; Lightning; Renewable energies; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

GROUNDING SYSTEMS; HIGH CURRENTS; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; LIGHTNING STRIKES; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TRANSIENT CURRENT; WIND FARM;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; LEAD ACID BATTERIES; LIGHTNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

DAMAGE; DESIGN; INSTALLATION; LIGHTNING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; STORM; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 79951508856     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.12.026     Document Type: Article

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