James W. Sewall

Electric

The Challenge

In a competitive, deregulated market, public- and investor-owned electric utilities are challenged to provide more reliable service at lower operating costs. To manage geographically distributed networks; assess potential new markets, new sites, and renewable energy sources; determine environmental impacts; and meet regulatory compliance, utilities require continuous, up-to-date information on the location, operation and maintenance of their assets.

Integrated Solutions

To meet the challenge, more electric utilities are integrating their core business systems with GIS. A centralized system with a consistent, accurate landbase gives utilities the power to manage facilities and to streamline a broad range of company workflow processes from outage and work management to engineering analysis, document management, and customer billing. If the system is hosted over the web, all authorized users—executives, operators, field staff—can quickly access one source for standardized data, maps, and applications, with only a browser and Internet connection. The considerable work efficiencies realized in-house translate to faster outage response and reduced outage durations in the field, lowered restoration costs, and improved public relations and customer satisfaction.

Sewall offers electric utilities a range of geospatial and engineering solutions:

Consulting

• Business case development
• Industry analysis/needs assessment
• System selection and design
• System implementation planning
• Data sharing brokering

Data & Applications

• Aerial imagery and field data acquisition
• Landbase mapping and digital orthos
• Vegetation management mapping
• Address geocoding
• ROW and corridor mapping
• Linear referencing
• Systems integration
• Applications for asset maintenance

Engineering

• Site selection, design and development
• Facilities renovation
• Environmental engineering
• Direct assessment services
• Underwater inspection