Powerful Planning Tools: GIS Power Up Distributed Generation

  1. Ramírez-Rosacdo, I.J. 2
  2. Fernández-Jiménez, L.A. 2
  3. Monteiro, C. 1
  4. Miranda, V. 1
  5. García-Garrido, E. 2
  6. Zorzano-Santamaría, P.J. 2
  1. 1 Universidade Do Porto
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    Universidade Do Porto

    Oporto, Portugal

    ROR https://ror.org/043pwc612

  2. 2 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine

ISSN: 1540-7977

Any de publicació: 2005

Volum: 3

Número: 2

Pàgines: 56-63

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.1109/MPAE.2005.1405871 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-16244393103 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Resum

The development of techniques under geographical information system (GIS) platforms, such as geocomputational modeling, which increase the capabilities of GIS, allowing the systems to adapt to optimal distributed generation (DG) planning studies, is discussed. Using adequate software under the GIS platform, users can obtain useful information on the economic or technical viability of any distributed power generation facilities. GIS offers a variety of structured data models suitable for the storage, manipulation, and analysis of the information needed in DG planning. GIS can also be used in DG planning to study negotiation processes among different energy actors to look for geographical planning solutions.