Bus mounted surge protection devices

A bus mounted surge protection device configured to be positioned in a panelboard alongside one or more similarly sized circuit breaker devices,

• wherein the bus mounted surge protection device is configured to be received by a same provisional bus as the one or more similarly sized circuit breaker devices;
• wherein the bus mounted surge protection device is configured to protect all devices connected to the one or more similarly sized circuit breaker devices in the panelboard;
• and
• wherein the bus mounted surge protection device comprises a surge ground terminal on a load side of bus mounted surge protection device, the surge ground terminal is connected to a single bus using only a single wire such that the load side of the bus mounted surge protection device is connected to the single bus with a total of one wire and the one wire is the only wire connecting the bus mounted surge protection device to the panelboard.