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Using GIS to Help Manage a National Energy Program
Track: Electric and Gas
Author(s): Charles Cover

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has jurisdictional responsibility over key energy issues throughout the United States including statutory responsibility for nonfederal hydroelectric projects. The FERC licenses approximately 1,600 hydroelectric projects and has a database of 28,000 engineering drawings that show project features and boundary maps.



In the late 1990s, FERC began to develop a GIS system to track and manage project boundaries associated with hydroelectric projects. FERC began to convert its drawings to electronic format and digitize project boundaries. This effort continues today with the help of various GIS, CAD, and imaging software packages. FERC's regulations now require electronic TIFF images for engineering drawings and GIS data for project boundaries. This encourages our licensees to partner in the data collection and verification process and is accelerating the development of an enterprise GIS system.



Primary software used: Esri ArcMap 9.01, ArcIMS, ArcSDE

Charles Cover
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Office of Energy Projects
888 1st ST N.E.
Washington , DC 20426
US
Phone: 2025028832
Fax: 2022192732
E-mail: charles.cover@ferc.gov