What are corona losses in transmission lines?

Many a times we heard about losses due to resistance, losses due to connectors etc. But have you ever wondered, if there are any losses due to rain, sunlight, atmosphere etc?

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• Corona loss is a kind of strongvariable power loss/strong in transmission lines, caused by thestrong ionization of air molecules/strong near the transmission line conductors. These air molecules once ionized carry charge, in form of current with them, resulting in hissing or crackling sounds with  glowing streaks of red or blue light. These losses are variable because unlike losses due to resistive loads, these losses vary with rain, sunlight, atmosphere, concentration of molecules and types of molecules present at a particular place. An important factor to reduce corona discharge is to increase the radius of conductor, but increasing conductor radius, increases cost of transmission. Sometimes losses can even be greater than 25kW/km.  

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