Esri UK to Deliver Energy Map Solution

08 March 2011, 3:02pm

Aylesbury, March 8th 2011: Esri UK, the country’s leading provider of geographic information systems (GIS) technology, has been appointed by Nottingham City Council to develop an interactive energy map that will help reduce carbon emissions across the city. The pioneering solution is a key element of Nottingham City Council’s Energy Strategy; to reduce city-wide carbon emissions by 26 per cent by 2020, and to ensure that 20 per cent of Nottingham’s energy requirements are met by renewable sources, by the same date.

The interactive GIS-driven energy map will highlight a range of actionable opportunities from streets that will benefit from greater wall insulation, to properties with south-facing roofs suitable for photo-voltaic panels. With funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change and working closely with central government and the Nottingham Energy Partnership, the Council will use the solution to inform decisions on both energy generation and energy efficiency initiatives.

Esri UK will develop and roll-out two separate interfaces of the energy map, to enable different groups of users to access the functionality they need via the Council’s intranet or the public web site. Council planners, energy managers and local businesses will be able to query the data presented and perform discrete analyses to support their decision making on both energy generation and energy efficiency initiatives. The second interface will give local citizens the ability to look up their own properties on the map and help them take decisive action on their own energy-saving initiatives.

“We are delighted to be working with Nottingham City Council, actively demonstrating how GIS technology supports its energy strategy while delivering ‘better for less’,” commented Stephen Leece, General Manager, Central and Local Government for Esri UK. “Our technology will help the council make informed decisions about where to invest money to help generate optimum carbon savings, while identifying where energy and resource is being wasted”

Esri UK’s mapping solution will combine the powerful spatial analysis of ArcGIS (1) Server with the intuitive user features of LocalView Fusion (2). As a result, the solution will deliver highly sophisticated and detailed analyses, in a highly user-friendly format. Once completed the energy map will incorporate as many as forty different data sets and employ digital surface and terrain modelling techniques to identify the height, volume and roof area of individual buildings.

(1)ArcGIS is an interoperable platform for building a complete GIS that lets you easily author data, maps, globes, and models on the desktop; serve them to a GIS server, and use them on the desktop, on the Web, or in the field as the needs of the organisation grow.

(2) LocalView Fusion is ESRI (UK)'s next-generation GIS solution for Local Authorities, a completely new Geographic Information platform packed with features and benefits designed to help catapult a Local Authority's Geographic Information capabilities forward, quickly and cost-effectively.

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