Load Planning in Utility Network

[RaghavGupta]

Hi 

Does ESRI provides OOTB in Utility network model for load planning or max number of connections to pole . Is it even possible. In one of the videos on Youtube, it was mentioned it can be done. However, I am not able to find any such links resource on internet. 

I am wondering this can be done using Attribute rules but still is there any OOTB capability available 

Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks & Regards

Raghav

[RobertKrisher · Accepted solution]

The utility network does not perform those calculations, but the utility network foundation data model contains all the necessary attribution to perform many different calculations like this (which is why the tables have few fields). You can either build your own tool to do this or look for an Esri business partner with a solution that can perform these calculations and integrate with the utility network.

[Jens_Dalsgaard]

Volue, a Scandinavia-based Gold partner of Esri, provides Volue Grid Calculator - a SaaS-based access to performing load-flow- and short-circuit-calculations from directly within ArcGIS Pro or web map. 

https://www.volue.com/products-and-services/volue-grid-calculator 

Volue Grid Calculator allows calculating on both medium- and low voltage grids.

This product is currently implemented for supporting balanced three-phase grids with their extensive low-voltage grids rather than poles for every four houses - as seen in Europe and large shares of the world.

That said, grid calculation on 'North American grids' abides to the same rule-set as calculating other grid setups. Adapting / reconfiguring Volue Grid Calculator for your needs is feasible given the right business case. 

With such grid calculation capabilities offered directly to your GIS users valuable business intelligence is democratized and your calculation experts are offloaded to focus on more complex calculations.