**Preface to "Lightning Modeling and Its Effects on Electric Infrastructures"**

The effect of lightning on electrical infrastructures is one of the most critical issues in modern engineering research. Suitable instruments and access to up-to-date studies that are able to reflect the reality of these effects are essential. Studies relating to lightning events cover a wide variety of physics phenomena, from the development of the lightning channel, to the protection of wind turbine blades or overhead lines insulators. Presented in this chapter are works from several authors covering a range of topics, all aiming to provide better solutions to the engineering problems faced by areas of the world that are prone to lightning events.

> **Massimo Brignone, Daniele Mestriner**

> > *Editors*
