Shielding the Switchyard: How Lightning Poles Are Placed, Sized and Engineered
Lightning poles, sometimes called lightning masts or lightning protection poles, are substation structures built to be struck. IUP designs and supplies steel lightning poles for electrical substations and battery energy storage systems (BESS). IUP’s earlier article on substation structures noted that an effective shielding system “depends on pole height, placement, and the geometry of the … Shielding the Switchyard: How Lightning Poles Are Placed, Sized and Engineered