Electric & Gas

Viewing electric and gas system data geospatially gives managers context. GIS, however, is more than a pretty map. It gives managers insight that improves operations and customer service and streamlines work processes. GIS offers utilities advantages including A means for outage management response A basis for building facilities A system for service call and fleet management work A resource for market strategizing An automation process for everyday work tasks With the power of GIS at hand, utility managers can better understand their service area needs and their resources for meeting those needs. GIS is most powerful when utilities integrate it into their information technology infrastructure. This allows utilities to visualize the data through intelligent maps in their multiple systems: Customer service Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) Work management Financial Human resources Furthermore, they can capture spatial information on weather intelligence, line clearing cycles, or field service dispatching from outside sources and consolidate it for new decision-making tools. By placing GIS as a core component within the enterprise technology system, company managers can better achieve their business goals.

Site selection and evaluation

Generation site placement studies are supported using GIS. The geological, structural configuration is essential to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the area so the project can be implemented in suitable terrain. GIS is used to process this data.

Plant licensing

A large number of environmental studies are conducted during the process of licensing, and GIS tools aid in efficient and comprehensive results. The studies require a wide variety of data from governmental and other sources including ecological, engineering, recreational, cultural, and socioeconomic content.

Network viewing solutions

GIS provides tools for selecting suitable areas, finding the optimum path, creating the profile analysis, engineering design of towers and wires, surveying support, and estimating costs.

Right-of-way solutions

GIS is used to manage right-of-way activities including planning and management, property appraisal, property acquisition, property/asset management, asset relocation, vegetation management, and corridor preservation.

Asset management solutions

ESRI's GIS helps electricity generation and transmission utility managers visualize, analyze, and understand their facilities.

Land management solutions

GIS supports land data storage and organization, surveying, mapping, and more. The result is fast access to maps, comprehensive data, and reduced costs.

Field design

Combining GIS with mobile technologies, such as global positioning systems, synchronizing technologies, and automated vehicle location systems, provides utilities with mobile solutions that save time, focus resources, and capture accurate data. Utility users need flexible, scalable solutions to support their various needs when "going mobile" with GIS facility data. Depending on the job functions, field personnel need to be able to do everything from viewing and querying facility information, making redline changes and markups, and editing features and attributes, to creating and submitting as-built work order designs.

Outage management

Trouble Call and Outage Management Systems enable distribution companies to efficiently and effectively manage incidents in their region. High-performance GIS display capabilities allow utility personnel to have a spatial view of the locations of trouble calls enabling analysis of outages and immediate dispatch of crews. When integrated with other key systems, a GIS hosted outage system can dramatically increase service reliability, lower trouble dispatch and crew costs, improve customer and public communications, and support competitive business initiatives.

The enterprise

An enterprise GIS implementation for utility companies provides spatial query and geographic visualization to virtually every employee. Interoperability built into ESRI's GIS software enables the utility company's core business systems to work in harmony with GIS, providing corporate-wide, integrated solutions. Using ESRI's GIS technologies, generation and transmission companies improve their business operations by analyzing market potential, reducing maintenance costs, optimizing assets. Also GIS provides the tools to monitor environmental impacts, automating processes, and improve earning potential. ESRI's GIS software is an open system conforming to information technology standards and therefore can be used throughout the enterprise for a variety of business processes. Integrating GIS into corporate systems improves decision making and efficiency which result in increase customer satisfaction and cost savings.