Electrical Power Sector and Lightning Protection
Lightning protection performs an important and imperative function in the energy and electrical power sectors helping companies avoid downtime and restoration cost that come with outages. Each year a multitude of electric power facilities are knocked off line due to lightning. These lightning strikes have a primary effect such as fire and also secondary effect, such as transient surges and over voltage. This occurrence degrades/reduces what is called mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) and it can be extremely costly to electric power providing companies as well as their customers. An electrical power company need lightning protection because: - Large surface areas, metal structures that attract lightning - Located in isolated areas - High rates of lightning strikes - Damage to highly sensitive equipments Therefore it is important for these entities to have lightning protection, and to create a thorough and comprehensive solution which combines lightning protection, with g