WINSTED >> East Coast Lightning Equipment opened its operation to the public Friday to celebrate Manufacturing Day, a nationwide event that allows local businesses to showcase what it is they do and ...

Electrical substations utilize direct lightning stroke shielding to help ensure proper operation, and to prevent costly damages and extended outages. While modern substation designs and equipment make ...

Firing bolts of lightning at expensive electrical equipment is all in a day's work at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center. The goal for the lightning research and ...

The quantity and complexity of the electrical and electronic equipment in use at aggregate plant facilities continues to grow as more and more new technology products become available. Equipment such ...

The requirements for installing lightning protection systems were featured in the October 2016 issue of Electrical Currents from the Washington State Department of ...

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 ...

BRICK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Beach staff and visitors at a Jersey Shore town will soon be getting more protection from lightning. Officials from the town of Brick say they plan to install lightning ...

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 ...

Every three years, the National Electric Code (NEC) undergoes revisions that move us forward toward protecting life and property more effectively. While adoption of these updated versions of the Code ...