SUMMARYIn recent years, frequent damage to wind turbines by winter lightning has been reported in the region along the Sea of Japan. It is a serious finding that lightning hits concentrate on wind turbines in this region. The authors investigated the increase rate of the frequency of lightning hits on wind turbines due to wind turbine construction by using LLS (lightning location system) data. As a result, an experimental formula to estimate the increase rate of the frequency of lightning hits on wind turbines as a function of parameters related to the construction conditions, namely the height of wind turbines, the height above sea level, and the latitude, is proposed. C⃝ 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 190(1): 37-44, 2015; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com).
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