抄録
In the coast of the Japan Sea which has many good places for wind turbine generator system, winter lightning occurs frequently. Many results of investigation have been reported not only damages of wind turbine generator system itself but also failures of distribution line arresters caused by part of the lightning current which flows into distribution lines when the customer's structure is struck by lightning. The lightning back flow current and ground potential rise are also important factors for a lightning protection design of distribution line arresters, which are connected to the wind turbine generator system struck by lightning. This paper describes simulation results of the energy absorption to estimate the lightning damages in the arresters considering the back flow current and the ground potential rise using the EMTP.
