Abstract:The lightning protection of transmission line is designed mainly based on electrical geometric model-protection angle method, and it is obtained by the statistics of a discharge (one pulse) and many repeated experiments. Single lightning discharge contains multiple pulses, and single pulse discharge can not truly reflect the physical process of lightning multi-pulse discharge. Five stages of lightning discharge and main physical parameters are given according to the observation data in "Lightning Parameters for Engineering Applications" authorized by CIGRE, and meanwhile, the physical parameters of tower lightning rod and lightning interceptor against lightning are calculated. Finally, the characteristics and limitations of the existing lightning protection technologies for high-voltage transmission line are compared and analyzed, and a new application method of lightning interception technology is proposed.