Duquesne Light is typical of many of North American small to medium electric power utilities. It does not have an outage management system or an electrical data model which means it is difficult to connect customers […]
From the Editors Desk: GoGeomatics Canada is proud to be the official media sponsor of the first Canadian Geomatics competition. We recognize the leadership and hard work of the local GoGeomatics community in Fredericton who […]
Finding a job in geospatial technology can be difficult. That’s why GoGeomatics Canada is bringing back our popular Career Seminar to Ottawa to give job seekers the tools and techniques that will put them ahead […]
Yesterday at Distributech 2018 in San Antonio I listened to a talk from a consulting company contracted by an electric power utility to clean up GIS data originally sourced from CAD drawings. This reminded me […]
At Distributech 2016 Zarko Sumic, Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, predicted that by 2020, the largest energy company in the world (by market cap) will not own any network (grid) or generation assets. By analogy with […]
At Utility University at Distributech 2018 Joseph Nichols, a Project Manager at Burns and McDonnell, made the interesting case that over the period 2013 to 2016 there was a trend of increasing failure spend but […]
Canadian Geodetic Survey The Canadian Geodetic Survey (CGS) is developing a plan to expand its Positioning infrastructure and services. The CGS’s Positioning infrastructure plan is a key component of the pan-Canadian Positioning, Navigation and Timing […]
AECOM is a US$18.2 billion a year firm in the construction sector. It designs and builds infrastructure around the world for public- and private-sector clients including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, oil and gas, water, high-rise […]