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12% Chance of Damaging Solar Storm Over 10 Years; Preparation Key: Reuters Columnist

The probability of a solar storm striking Earth in the next decade with enough force to do serious damage to electricity networks could be as high as 12 percent, according to solar scientists. One ...

Reuters: Regs Being Drafted to Prep Power for U.S. Solar Storms

U.S. electricity regulators have begun drafting new reliability standards to protect the power grid from a repeat of severe geomagnetic storms like those that crippled the U.S. telegraph service in ...

Kemp Column: Bracing For the Big One; Solar Storm Risk For Power Grids, GPS

Power networks, pipelines, radio communications and the global positioning system (GPS) are all entering a period of increased risk of outages from geomagnetic storms as the solar activity cycle ...