SolarStorm
Visualising space weather effects on the power grid
Details
- External ID
- 46216596
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- SolarStorm
- Website domain
- solarstorm.space
- Launched
- Dec. 10, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I wanted to share my team's side project! We like to do R&D projects and investigate new areas, interesting problems, etc.This application visualises the dynamic interplay between space weather and our terrestrial power grid, focusing on Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) across the UK.By visualising the magnetic field, induced electric field, and resulting GICs, users can identify vulnerable areas of the UK power network and assess the potential for operational disruptions during geomagnetic storms.We would love to get some feedback and expand this to cover more power grids in more countries.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- space weather effects on power grid
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Visualizing geospatial data in a web interface is straightforward, but accurately modeling geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) across an electrical transmission grid requires specialized space weather and power systems physics.
What it would actually take: The frontend uses standard WebGL/Deck.gl/Mapbox mapping, but the backend requires a physical simulation pipeline ingesting real-time magnetometer data (e.g., INTERMAGNET, NOAA) and 1D/3D ground conductivity models to compute geoelectric fields via Maxwell's equations. These fields must then be applied to a detailed topological model of the high-voltage transmission grid (substation coordinates, transformer winding resistances, line resistances) using Lehtinen-Pirjola nodal analysis to calculate accurate DC flow across transformers.
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