A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), ...

“That impacts anything from the electric power grid to the aviation industry to GPS accuracy to satellite comms and more,” said Dahl. The federal government has invested heavily in space ...

The last big solar event to have a notable impact on a power grid was in 2003, Fiori said, when a number of geomagnetic storms known as "the Halloween storms" rerouted aircraft, affected GPS ...

A solar storm occurs when the sun emits abnormally high amounts of electromagnetic radiation. When these coronal emissions collide with the Earth's atmosphere, they disrupt the magnetic field and ...

Some have jumped on the suggestion that Spain’s push to use renewable energy had made an impact. Last year, renewables accounted for 53 per cent of the country’s power generation. Solar ...

UK maps out pathways to clean grid by 2030: Three-fold increase in wind and solar, and no new nuclear The Hywind Tampen floating wind farm in the North Sea.

The last big solar event to have a notable impact on a power grid was in 2003, Fiori said, when a number of geomagnetic storms known as "the Halloween storms" rerouted aircraft, affected GPS systems ...

On March 13, 1989, a massive flow of solar plasma paralyzed Quebec. Within two minutes, the power grid collapsed due to underground electrical currents generated by the solar storm.