Risk Management & Space Weather: Are You Ready?

Publish Date: September 6, 2011
Article Source: National Underwriter Property and Casualty
Article Link: www.aer.com/news-events/in-the-news/2011/risk-management-space-weather-are-you-ready

External Article Link: Risk Management & Space Weather: Are You Ready?

With modern society’s ubiquitous reliance on the electrical grid, “space weather”—such as a severe solar storm—can wreak havoc on the electric-power supply and trigger losses from business interruption and damaged physical assets.

Read the article in National Underwriter Property and Casualty, by AER scientists Nicole Homeier and James Griffin, who teamed with Kyle Beatty, managing director of AER Business Solutions, to explain ways to mitigate the business risks and potentially crippling effects of a severe solar storm.

It also appeared on the website PropertyCasualty360o.