GIS IN ELECTRICAL ASSET MAPPING: THE CASE OF BHADOHI, INDIA.

Abstract

With the advancement of GIS technology, electricity asset system in India is going to be
much more benefited in power system planning and management. The integration of GIS
with electric utilities is tremendously improving the planning and operation of the power
system. This paper basically focuses on the application of emerging technologies like GIS
(Geographic Information System) and GPS (Global Positioning System) which are capable of
carrying out power system analysis like load flow analysis, load movement, electrical line
(HT/LT) changes and electric asset management system using the ArcGIS 10.1 platform in
Bhadohi city of Uttar Pradesh, India. High resolution remote sensing data is used to prepare
various thematic layers i.e. settlement, transportation network map and other land base and
performed survey of electrical asset data of Bhadohi, which is finally integrated into GIS
platform. Number and types of electric poles, poles ID, distribution transformers (DTRs), the
length of HT/LT lines etc. are collected during the field survey. The geographic location of
each distribution transformer in the study area has been acquired using GPS and mapped in
the hard copies of satellite data. It was that while there were 433 distribution transformers
found in 2015 only 336 were recorded in 2011.