Due to their height and exposed location, wind turbines prove to be perfect lightning catchers. Damage due to lightning strike is often considered an ‘extraordinary event’, meaning that it drives additional costs during the operation and beyond standard service. With a solution from Phoenix Contact, tracking the incidence of high keraunic levels and monitoring adverse effects on performance of individual wind turbines can be significantly improved.
The risk of a lightning strike is continuously increasing as wind turbines (WTGs) become larger and their rotor blades longer and more susceptible.
