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Renewable Energy at the 2024 Esri User Conference

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07-25-2024 05:50 PM
JimDietterich
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‎07-25-2024 05:50 PM

This year's User Conference was the best yet for any GIS User in Clean Energy. I want to again thank all the session speakers at the Renewables User Sessions as well as our SIG Panelists. Your stories and experience are invaluable to the event and the wider GIS community working in renewable energy. There was also a number of areas where renewable energy was represented that you may have missed so I wanted to call attention to them now.

Top: Renewables Special Interest Group, featuring Panelists Alanna Araujo, Rachel Mead, Sam Ortega. Bottom: The Crown Estates on Plenary stage.Top: Renewables Special Interest Group, featuring Panelists Alanna Araujo, Rachel Mead, Sam Ortega. Bottom: The Crown Estates on Plenary stage.

Kid's Fair

The Kid's Fair theme this year was Weather. Perhaps more than any other industry, weather has a strong relationship with renewable energy.  Which is perhaps why the GIS activities at the Kid's Fair were all versions of familiar renewable energy workflows we see every day. Activities included:

  • An Instant App featuring a web scene that shows solar energy potential for rooftops of a subset of buildings in Naperville, IL where kids age 7-9 followed instructions to explore the app and choose which building would be the best candidate for solar panels.
  • Kids age 10-12 completed a Story Map showing renewable energy potential across the U.S. for a variety of different generation methods.

Seeing 7-12 year olds learn about distributed generation and highest and best use analysis is really something else. Take Jay's Story Map linked above:

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I couldn't help but notice some similarities to some recent work with Raster Analytics.

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GUiCE

The GIS Users in Clean Energy were prePicture3.pngsent and active at this year's conference, even meeting with Esri leadership. The community has come a long way since last year's overpacked 5:30PM session on a Wednesday evening where all we had to show for the community was a catchy acronym and some vague ideas. This year GUiCE had their own social organized by their own steering committee and the community is active and engaged and has already had a significant role in developing an ArcGIS Solution earlier this year. More to come!

 

To be a part of the GUiCE community, sign up at https://go.esri.com/GUiCE.