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Keeping Up with the Big Guys: How Geospatial Technology Can Transform Small Utilities

By Tony DiMarco, Director Business Development, Intergraph Corporation, July, 01, 2008 - They don’t have nearly as many customers and employees, and they have fewer meters and substations. However, smaller utilities have the same basic application needs as their larger neighbors.  more...
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Improving Distribution Utility Business Process with Enterprise-Wide GIS

By Ashish Sethia, Business Manager, New Carbon Finance, October, 09, 2007 - Introduction:  more...
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Leverage Your GIS In Long-Range Power Delivery Planning

By Tim Taylor, Business Development Manager, DMS, ABB Inc., August, 16, 2007 - In the long-range planning of electric substation and distribution facilities, a long-range load forecast and a plan for future distribution substation locations and capacity are developed. Corresponding plans for transmission and distribution lines are also prepared. Future substation sites, additional capacity at existing substation sites, transmission rights-of-way, and preliminary feeder costing can be developed, providing a blueprint for an organization to conduct its short-range planning and budgeting process. It is common for long-range plans to begin 5 years into the future and extend to 15 to 20 years in time.  more...
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Go Ahead: Outsource Your Mapping Department

By Jeremy Sadler, Director of Technical Sales, Osmose Utilities Services, Inc., May, 14, 2007 - Accurate, reliable maps of your field assets are critical to efficient operations. But keeping utility maps accurate and up-to-date -- and at the same time making them accessible to the people who need them -- can be labor-intensive, costly and difficult to coordinate.  more...
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Taking GIS Into the Field: Why the End-user Experience is Critical to Success

By Corey Maple, CEO, Powel-MiniMax, December, 27, 2005 - GIS is a technology, not a business process. As a result, taking GIS into the field by itself creates a number of potential challenges. Applications can be too slow, with learning curves that are too steep for rapid acceptance among end-users. To ensure a successful transition, utilities will likely need to implement GIS with integrated field design. When considering your options, it is important to focus first on the end-user — not the solution itself.  more...
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Asset Management - Using GIS for Strategic Analysis

By Gregory Palovchik, Analyst, Nationwide Insurance, April, 28, 2004 - Introduction
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Cleco integrates CIS and GIS to provide better customer service, quicker outage response

By Karen Kirkpatrick, Utility Industry Researcher and Writer, Chartwell Inc., December, 09, 2003 - Executive Summary
Utility: Cleco Corp., Pineville, La., is a regional energy services company based in central Louisiana. The company's two primary businesses are Cleco Power LLC, an electric utility, and Cleco Midstream Resources LLC, a wholesale energy business. Cleco Power's assets include 11,000 miles of distribution circuits and 1,250 miles of transmission lines. In addition, Cleco manages and operates three regulated generating facilities with a total combined capacity of 2,050 MW, 1,360 MW of which Cleco owns. The electric utility serves more than 261,000 residential and commercial customers.  more...
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Considerations for Optimal Utility Usage of Geospatial Information Systems

By Peter Manos, Vice President, Warren B. Causey, Ltd, October, 03, 2003 - Background:
In 1964, the first astronaut who performed a space walk reported that as soon as he went outside his orbiting spacecraft, he noticed that the canopy of stars around him seemed to form a sphere, and no matter where he turned his head, he had the distinct, unshakable sense that he was at the center of the universe.  more...
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Maximizing GIS investments through optimal Enterprise Asset Management integration

By Blake Wiggins, Director of Product Strategy, EAM Solutions, Indus International, January, 22, 2003 - Abstract
As part of its work with numerous electric, gas and water utilities, Indus International has developed an integration framework and functional capabilities to support the use of Geographical Information System (GIS) capabilities across a wide range of utility functions, in coordination with our Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution.  more...
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