Transmission Lines in Poland and Space Weather Effects

Agnieszka Gil, Renata Modzelewska, Szczepan Moskwa, Agnieszka Siluszyk, Marek Siluszyk, Anna Wawrzynczak, Mariusz Pozoga and Sebastian Domijanski
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Agnieszka Gil: Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Siedlce University, Konarskiego 2, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Renata Modzelewska: Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Siedlce University, Konarskiego 2, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Szczepan Moskwa: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Agnieszka Siluszyk: Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Siedlce University, Konarskiego 2, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Marek Siluszyk: Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Siedlce University, Konarskiego 2, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Anna Wawrzynczak: Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Institute of Computer Sciences, Siedlce University, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
Mariusz Pozoga: Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka Str.18A, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
Sebastian Domijanski: Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Institute of Computer Sciences, Siedlce University, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: We analyze the solar influence of space weather events on Polish energy infrastructure via geomagnetic disturbances. We consider two time intervals of very different levels of solar activity (SA) in the course of the solar activity cycle 24: 2010—an early rising phase of SA, near the solar minimum and 2014—solar maximum. From the total number of electrical grid failures, we extract almost five thousand failures in 2010 and more than ten thousand in 2014, which could be related to space weather effects. We analyze data of failures having unidentified causes, failures coupled with the aging of transmission network elements and electronic devices, which appeared during the time intervals of enhanced geomagnetic activity. We show that around the times of increasing geomagnetic activity level, the amount of transmission lines failures in the groups mentioned above grows, but mostly with some delay. It might be connected to some cumulative effect due to the result of transient states and their propagation in the distribution network. Although we do not exclude that the other factors may play a role, the solar-originating disturbances strengthen these effects.

Keywords: transmission lines in Poland; electrical grids failures; geomagnetic storms; solar activity; space weather effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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