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Grounding
7.1 Introduction
The signicance of grounding for electric power equipment and systems
such as transformers, substations, buildings, home appliances, etc., is well-
known, and a number of books and papers have been published on the sub-
ject [1–30]. Grounding is done for the following reasons:
1. To maintain the ground terminal voltage at zero which is, strictly
speaking, soil potential.
2. It makes an abnormally large current, such as a lightning strike, dis-
sipate into the ground.
3. To obtain a reference voltage to dene (measure) voltage of equip-
ment and systems.
Without grounding, human safety during maintenance work, for exa ...