• Computer Science
• Published in
  Canadian Conference on…
  2006
• DOI:10.1109/CCECE.2006.277540

Geomagnetically Induced Currents in European High-Voltage Power Systems

@article{Pirjola2006GeomagneticallyIC,
  title={Geomagnetically Induced Currents in European High-Voltage Power Systems},
  author={Risto J. Pirjola and David H. Boteler},
  journal={2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering},
  year={2006},
  pages={1263-1266}
}

• Risto J. Pirjola, David H. Boteler

Geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) in power systems are a ground manifestation of space weather arising from solar activity. Most of the research on GIC done in Europe so far refers to Scandinavian power grids. A power outage due to GIC occurred in southern Sweden in October 2003. The principal reason that similar GIC problems as in Sweden have not occurred in Finland is in the use of different transformer types in these two countries. However, due to the northern location, research on GIC… CONTINUE READING

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