Systems and methods for rapid detection of lightning-impacted wind turbines

A system, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable memory medium including executable instructions, the executable instructions being executable by the at least one processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
• receiving an indication of a location of a lightning strike;
• determining that the location of the lightning strike is within a first range of at least one wind turbine;
• receiving wind turbine monitoring data from the at least one wind turbine;
• assessing the wind turbine monitoring data from the at least one wind turbine for non-standard performance;
• determining if the wind turbine monitoring data indicating non-standard performance is correlated with a lightning impact;
• and
• generating an alert that the at least one wind turbine may be damaged by lightning based on the lightning strike being within a first range of the at least one wind turbine and the determination that the wind turbine monitoring data indicates non-standard performance is correlated with the lightning impact.

A method, comprising:

• receiving an indication of a location of a lightning strike;
• determining that the location of the lightning strike is within a first range of at least one wind turbine;
• receiving wind turbine monitoring data from the at least one wind turbine;
• assessing the wind turbine monitoring data from the at least one wind turbine for non-standard performance;
• determining if the wind turbine monitoring data indicating non-standard performance is correlated with a lightning impact;
• and
• generating an alert that the at least one wind turbine may be damaged by lightning based on the lightning strike being within a first range of the at least one wind turbine and the determination that the wind turbine monitoring data indicates non-standard performance is correlated with the lightning impact.