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Space weather has long been known to effect electric power systems, these effects can range in scale from the barely noticeable to the catastrophic. This paper reviews two events, one the 1989 collapse of the Hydro-Québec system which ranks as probably the most significant power system event tracable to geomagnetically induced currents and two, the 2001 event on the Tranpower system in New Zealand, which while significantly less severe did cause plant failures on a system that had no previously considered geomagnetically induced currents a threat to power quality and security of supply
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Béland, J., Small, K. (2004). Space Weather Effects on Power Transmission Systems: The Cases of Hydro-Québec and Transpower New ZealandLtd. In: Daglis, I.A. (eds) Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 176. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2754-0_15
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