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, renewable energy source potential, and other key energy infrastructure.
Government needs to play an active role to collate, validate, verify, correct, organize the systematic database and digitize the processes
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 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 a visualisation of static data of 27 thematic layers. All thematic layers are sharable using OGC-compliant secure Web Map Service (WMS) for interoperability.
Disclaimer: These case studies have been extracted from the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework report.
