Wind energy industry: best practices in lightning risk prevention and mitigation

Lightning is an inevitable event. If thunderstorms cannot be avoided, professional solutions exist to prevent and reduce their negative effects.

About this webinar

Lightning is a serious meteorological hazard for the wind energy industry. From downtime to crew security and income loss, lightning damages can reach up to 1.5 million euros per lightning event for a wind turbine. A recent study in Germany revealed that lightning strikes resulted in 80% of all insurance claims involving wind turbines.

Lightning is an inevitable event. If thunderstorms cannot be avoided, professional solutions exist to prevent and reduce their negative effects. This is the main objective of lightning risk mitigation.

Thanks to a strategic plan, companies have the opportunity to identify and evaluate the risk but also prioritize and monitor actions to take, in order to guarantee the safety of people and property, but also to limit the effects on business continuity.

During this webinar, Météorage experts, well aware of the challenges of lightning for the Wind Energy industry, will provide you with the best tips on how to deal with it.

•  Stakes of lightning risk prevention and mitigation, with key figures and real case studies.
•  Standards and recommendations - IEC 61400-24: A focus will be made by our experts in standardisation committees, on the latest recommendations of IEC 61400-24 and IEC 62793 applying with lightning prevention in the wind energy industry
•  Solutions : Weather alarm (thunderstorms, strong winds, temperatures…), Lightning Reports and Observation of thunderstorms, among others. This comprehensive range of solutions enables a precise answer to the needs of wind farm stakeholders.

At the end of this webinar, our experts will answer your questions.

HOSTED BY

• Marc BonnetDirecteur Export / VP International @ Météorage

  Marc helps our client access lightning data and provide them solutions to use the information and produce value added services.

• Stéphane Schmitt Météorage

  International Expert in standardisation committees (AFNOR / IEC) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Specialist in Thunderstorm warning systems.

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