{"id":1869,"date":"2014-12-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2014-12-24T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:08:44","slug":"wind-turbines-protected-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"How wind turbines are protected from lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting wind turbines from lightning is an important part of the renewable energy game. These complex electronic installations are becoming more prevalent worldwide, and operators cannot afford downtimes.<\/p>\n<p>Surge and lightning protection is especially important for wind turbines because of their height and exposed positions, and earth-to-cloud lightning (upward flashes) need to be considered as well.<\/p>\n<p>Protection measures include the lightning protection zones concept, metal shields, and earthing systems.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a title=\"Lightning and surge protection of multi-megawatt wind turbines\" href=\"http:\/\/electrical-engineering-portal.com\/lightning-and-surge-protection-of-multi-megawatt-wind-turbines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lightning and surge protection of multi-megawatt wind turbines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting wind turbines from lightning is an important part of the renewable energy game. These complex electronic installations are becoming more prevalent worldwide, and operators cannot afford downtimes. Surge and lightning protection is especially important for wind turbines because of their height and exposed positions, and earth-to-cloud lightning (upward flashes) need to be considered as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How wind turbines are protected from lightning<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"These complex units require special surge protection\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How wind turbines are protected from lightning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"These complex units require special surge protection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Electric Saver 1200 Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Electricsaver1200com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Electricsaver1200com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-26T14:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ElectricSaver1200-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"329\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"114\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Glenn Hough\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Glenn Hough\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Glenn Hough\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/aff006acfa85b0adcb52ea9a16a4a452\"},\"headline\":\"How wind turbines are protected from lightning\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-26T14:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/\"},\"wordCount\":89,\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/\",\"name\":\"How wind turbines are protected from lightning\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-26T14:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/aff006acfa85b0adcb52ea9a16a4a452\"},\"description\":\"These complex units require special surge protection\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/wind-turbines-protected-lightning\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How wind turbines are protected from lightning\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.electricsaver1200.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Electric Saver 1200 Blog\",\"description\":\"Learn To Save Electric At Home The Easy Way! 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