GIS for Enhanced Electric Utility Performance

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GIS for Enhanced Electric Utility Performance; Contents; Foreword; Preface; What Is This Book About?; Who Is This Book For?; What's Inside?; How to Use This Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction; So What Exactly Is a Utility GIS?; A Computerized or Digital Map?; Each Is Very Different; Geocentric Versus Geoenabled; Taking Advantage of Mapping; Geocentric Workflows Build Spatial Conte; Geoenabling Enriches Existing Informatio; The Future of Utility GIS; Chapter 1 GIS and the Business of the Utility; GIS: A Spatial Context for Solutions; Transforming a Century-Old Industry

Do You Know Where Your Poles Are?GIS Helps to Put Locational Data in Orde; Managing Data; Spatial Analysis; Awareness; Development of GIS at Electric Utilities; Mapping Systems Get Dysfunctional; Old Mapping Workflows; Development of Digital Mapping Systems-t; Not Much Changed; GIS Is Different; Networks Are Added to GIS; What's the Difference Between CAD and GI; GIS Architectures; GIS Is Changing Rapidly; What Matters Most to the Electric Utilit; The Balanced Scorecard; GIS Helps Visualize What to Balance; What an Electric Company Does; Managing Performance; Manage the Infrastructure

Managing Supporting ResourcesManaging Information; The Utility Value Chain and Its Spatial; Location Critical for Energy Supply; GIS Plays a Strong Role in Transmission; GIS Enhances Distribution; Customer Care Needs GIS; GIS Is Engaged in the Complete Utility Value Chain; GIS Is Not Just About Mapping; What About the Data?; GIS Helps Solve the Big Problems; Need to Complete the Data; Chapter 2 Location Matters for Energy Supply; What Is in This Chapter?; A New Era for Electrical Energy Supply; Moving from the Free-for-All Era; Competition for Energy Supply Emerges; The Era of Competition

Shifting of RiskThe Energy Supply Market; The Market Will Only Get More Complicate; Energy Supply Gets Even More Complicated; The Energy Supply Organization; Energy Contracts and Risk Management; Managing Power Generation Performance; Hydroelectric Generation; Nuclear Plant Performance; GIS Helps Nuclear Organizations to Plan; Fossil Plant Performance; Managing the Risk; Performance of Wind Power; Wind Still Has Environmental Issues; GIS Data Management Helps Wind Farms; Solar Electric Power Generation; Geothermal Power Plants; Distributed Generation; Energy Planning

Managing the InfrastructureWhat's Involved in Building Electric Gen; Exploration; Development; Managing Support Services; Managing Information; The Energy Supply Data Model; Information Products; Workflows; Location Matters in Energy Supply; Chapter 3 Electric Transmission and GIS; Location Is Essential to Transmission; Transmission Lines; Transmission Substations; HVDC; Transmission System Components and GIS D; A System in Transition; The Business of Electric Transmission; What Does GIS Have to Do with Transmissi; What Transmission Operators Worry About; Make Money; Keep Customers Happy

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