%0 Journal Article
%T Disturbances in the US electric grid associated with geomagnetic activity
%A Schrijver Carolus J.
%A Mitchell Sarah D.
%J Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
%D 2013
%I EDP Sciences
%R 10.1051/swsc/2013041
%X Large solar explosions are responsible for space weather that can impact technological infrastructure on and around Earth. Here, we apply a retrospective cohort exposure analysis to quantify the impacts of geomagnetic activity on the US electric power grid for the period from 1992 through 2010. We find, with more than 3¦Ò significance, that approximately 4% of the disturbances in the US power grid reported to the US Department of Energy are attributable to strong geomagnetic activity and its associated geomagnetically induced currents.
%K solar magnetic activity
%K geomagnetic disturbances
%K US electric power grid
%K geomagnetically induced currents
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2013041