Lightning is one of the major causes of poor performance by medium-voltage overhead lines in distribution networks. On some Eskom medium-voltage networks, for example, up to 78% of equipment failures ...

Editor’s note: The following article is based on a white paper written by Dion Neri and Bruce Glushakow that is currently in review as an IEEE transactions paper. For decades, American transient ...

Lightning is a spark of electrical current flowing from the cloud to the ground, or even from one cloud to another. The atmospheric form of lightning is a giant version of the static electricity ...

Scientists in the Emirates have developed a novel lightning mast layout that reportedly eliminates shading effect on PV panels. The proposed approach also addresses earth grid requirements under ...