First, thank you all so much for a fantastic week in San Diego at the 2022 Esri User Conference! Much can be said about meeting together as a GIS community in one place and at one time, but every minute lived up to the conference theme of Mapping Common Ground and how the geographic approach can help create better understanding and agreed-upon solutions. This year’s User Conference had many offerings available which included user presentation sessions, special interest group meetings and socials. It was a pleasure to hear first-hand about the exciting work being done to solve unique business challenges, and to exchange ideas, knowledge, and common workflows within the renewable energy community.
For those who could not attend this year, hopefully you were able to join us digitally for the plenary and for some of the technical sessions. Below is a quick summary of some of the highlights specific to Renewable Energy:
Special Achievement in GIS Award
Congratulations to EDF Renewables Inc the winner of the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award in Renewables!
EDF Renewables transformed their GIS practices to develop a company-wide mapping and data solution to better-deliver authoritative geospatial information across departments. The GIS team developed a stable platform based on ArcGIS Enterprise & Desktop, by gathering needs from business users, customizing the structure and content to meet their needs, and creating a support, training, and regular follow up workflow system. This solved many of the data access issues that were previously part of their GIS system.
Additional efforts included centralizing servers for ArcGIS use, creating a GIS library for data access, integrating proprietary and subscription data, collaborating with ESRI to develop customized tools, and automating workflows. Custom-scripted geoprocessing services and widgets, and Web App-Builder are regularly used to deploy custom mapping applications for a variety of teams and uses.
The EDF Renewables team is truly an inspiration for the Renewable Energy Community and we are thrilled to see your hard work be recognized as it deserves.
Map Gallery Awards
User Presentations
Esri would like to thank all the presentations that freely shared their work and enthusiasm with the GIS community.
Renewables Special Interest Group Meeting
Members of the renewable energy community were invited to get together to discuss opportunities, trends, and business challenges facing the community today. The Esri Renewable Energy team discussed resources available to the community, such as: licensing help, professional services, change management, community networking, and GIS support with specific project initiatives. Craig Weber of EDF Renewables accepted the SAG Award for Renewable Energy on behalf of his team and gave a speech about their work in GIS throughout the previous years to deliver authoritative geospatial information across departments. Two leaders of the community (Lisa Tunnell of Clearway Energy and Michelle Pruse of Pattern Energy) served on a renewable energy panel to share how their career in renewable energy began, how they are currently using GIS at their respective companies, what business challenges they address using GIS, and shared exciting GIS use cases emerging in the renewable energy industry. Finally, Andrew Norris of Nextera Energy shared his experience on the PUG (Petroleum User Group) steering committee and discussed next steps on creating a formal Esri Renewable Energy group starting with the formation of a voluntary steering committee.
Panelists included:
Lisa Tunnell, Clearway Energy
Michelle Pruse, Pattern Energy
Energy Social
Members of the petroleum, pipeline, and renewables community convened at the Marriot Coronado Terrace. With food, drinks, and music provided by a live band, it was a perfect opportunity to network with industry peers across the energy sector and share stories, ask questions, or simply catch up.
Special thanks to our sponsors!
Stay connected with the Esri Renewables Community beyond the UC: Esri’s Renewables Community
For anyone interested in joining the Renewables Steering Community please contact Alessandra Millican at amillican@esri.com
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