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Geographic information
system (GIS) technology allows utility managers to organize their
activities according to a principle natural to their business:
geography. So whether it's an electric company restoring power
after a catastrophe, a planning agency connecting residential
subdivisions to city services, or a natural gas transporter
extending its pipeline through ecologically sensitive countryside,
GIS has emerged as the tool of choice.
GIS is also the tool for
managing the fallout from deregulation, which is transforming the
energy industry just as it transformed the telecommunications
industry in the 1980s. Today's successful energy service businesses
apply information technology to everything from managing facilities
and system load analysis to generating work orders and dispatching
service technicians.
Enterprise GIS for
Energy Companies presents these dozen
case studies from the trenches:
- South
Carolina Electric & Gas
- Bonneville Power
Administration
- AlintaGas
(Australia)
- Southern
Company
- New York
State Electric & Gas
- Reliant
Energy
- Williams
Gas Pipeline
- Colorado
Springs Utilities
- Electricté du Liban
(Lebanon)
- Southern
Californa Gas
- Public
Service Company of New Mexico
- Svenska
Kraftnat (Sweden)
This richly illustrated
volume is ideal for executives and technical managers in energy
services industries who want to manage their facilities more cost
effectively, find new markets, and better serve their
customers.
About the
author:
Christian Harder is the
author of ArcView GIS Means Business, Serving Maps on the
Internet, and Enterprise GIS for Energy
Companies.
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