GIS Energy Map for Resource and Infra Planning

40 CASE STUDY GIS Energy Map for Resource and Infra Planning

The Geospatial Energy Map of India by the NITI Aayog, in collaboration with ISRO, identifies and locates all primary and secondary sources of energy along with their transportation and transmission networks.

The idea is to develop a web-GIS-based information system for the visualisation of spatial and non-spatial data associated with conventional energy sources in India including power plants, coal mines, oil & gas wells, oil refineries, pipelines, the renewable energy source potential, and other key energy infrastructure.

Energy Map of India

While there are several maps and detailed data silos available discretely, the lack of a consolidated energy map of the country, besides the highly static nature of existing maps, used to be a constant roadblock to integration

Government needs to play an active role to collate, validate, verify, correct, organize the systematic database and digitize the processes

UTILLITY IN SECTORS

Geospatial planning of esources and infrastructure, including upcoming solar parks, coal blocks, crude oil and natural gas pipelines.

Investment Guidance for financial institutions

with associated features of topography and other physical assets.

Stakeholders Involved

NITI Aayog, Ministry of Power, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Coal, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Department of Atomic Energy, Ministry of Home Affairs and the Department of Science and Technology.

Solution

The concerned ministries related to the energy sector, appointed nodal officers, who were responsible for ascertaining key requirements and collecting relevant information and data from key Ministries.

The data was then collated, validated, verified, corrected, and organised in a systematic database to develop the web-based Geospatial Energy Map of India.

Key Outputs

The energy map currently provides visualisation of static data of 27 thematic layers. All thematic layers are sharable using OGC-compliant secure Web Map Service (WMS) for interoperability.

Disaster Management of possible energy disruption

Emergency Response, and safety of energy assets under inclement weather conditions