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Overvoltage protection systems are necessary to protect power system components against several types of overvoltages. In this paper, protection against overvoltage caused by lightning in 69 kV distribution feeders is addressed. The idea is to describe a methodology for which is possible to model and simulate the performance of a protection system which is composed by surge arresters when exposed...