External lightning protection and grounding in large-scale photovoltaic applications

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 427-434

  Charalambous, Charalambos A ^a   Kokkinos, Nikolaos D ^b   Christofides, Nikolas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Research and Development Department   (Greece)

^c FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Earthing; large scale PV plants; lightning protection

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GROUNDING; RURAL AREAS; SURGE PROTECTION;

LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEMS; NONISOLATED; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PROTECTION EQUIPMENT; PV PLANTS; SOLAR APPLICATIONS;

LIGHTNING PROTECTION;

EID: 84897477750     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2013.2280027     Document Type: Article

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