Importance of lightning activity monitoring systems in transient analysis on wind turbine blade

Lightning Activity Monitoring System (LAMS) provides very important data for transient analysis. This paper describes a new lightning activity monitoring system installed on the mountain Lovcen. First measurement data are shown and their importance in transient analysis due to direct lightning strokes on wind turbine blade is explained. This paper describes complete model for wind turbines testing under different lightning current shapes developed in EMTP - RV.