Residential PV systems are generally installed on the rooftop of residential buildings, with a large metal surface area, higher distance from the ground and an exposed location. Such PV systems are ...

Ed Lobnitz, retired principal/senior electrical engineer at TLC Engineering Solutions, wrote the chapter on lightning protection for towers that has appeared in several editions of the NAB Engineering ...

Lightning protection in photovoltaic (PV) systems is a critical area of study as these installations are increasingly exposed to atmospheric discharges that can substantially disrupt energy production ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — On a dark and stormy day in ...

TOLLESON, AZ (AZFamily) — Disaster struck a family in Tolleson Wednesday night when investigators said lightning caused their house to go up in flames. Everyone in the home is reported to have made it ...

Premier Technical Services Group has expanded its lightning protection operations with the acquisition of Earth Tech LPS Ltd, ...

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...

As the use of carbon fibre composites increases in aircraft manufacturing, so does the need for EMI shielding and lightning strike protection [1-4]. Lightning strike protection usually takes the form ...

Lightning sits at the boundary between routine weather and sudden hazard. It appears briefly, illuminates a landscape, and ...

When a 2018 lightning strike knocked out power at New York’s Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, operating room humidity controls failed. As a result, the hospital was forced to postpone dozens of ...