Study of Lightning Outage Performance of Transmission Line by the EMTP using Grounding Resistance Model with Soil Ionization Characteristics

The EMTP is widely used for lightning surge analysis. As for transmission lines, they have studied lighting outage performance of transmission line by the EMTP. In the EMTP analysis, grounding resistance of a tower is usually modeled as a constant resistance model, however it is known that soil ionization sometimes occurs by high currents such as a lightning stroke. Therefore we have developed a grounding resistance model with soil ionization characteristics for the EMTP analysis. In this paper, we analyze an outage of an existing transmission line so that we investigate the effect of a grounding resistance model with soil ionization characteristics.