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Substation grounding resistances are not contained in standard power system models, and approximate values are often used in GIC studies. This motivates the study in this thesis, which proposes a method to calculate the sensitivity of GIC at any substation due to both the substation being studied and neighboring substations’ grounding resistances. The work provides an algorithm to quantify the degree of dependence of the GICs at any given substation. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated using parameters from a real world power system. The case study results using the 20-bus GIC test system and a model of the North American Eastern Interconnect indicate that the substation GICs can be quite dependent on the assumed local substation grounding values. Subsequently, the same systems were studied to include neighboring substation grounding resistances. 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