FEDGEODAY 2023 | Lightning Talk - Aaron Meyers

Summary

Aaron Meyers discusses the geolocated energy information platform for electric utility customer outages, covering 140 million utility customers, representing 93% of the US population. The talk explores the platform's evolution, trade-off analysis, and the adoption of an open-source solution with Docker, Java, Python, and GeoServer. The development includes creating a unique data set for visualizing outages consistently and analyzing utility behaviors within and across counties. The speaker highlights the release of a historic outage data archive, spanning November 2014 to December 2022, supporting open science and addressing energy justice questions.

Highlights

🗺️ Geolocated energy information platform for electric utility outages.

🔄 Transitioned to an open-source solution for better user customization.

📊 Developed a unique data set for consistent visualization of outages.

🌐 Analyzing utility behaviors within and across counties.

🗄️ Released a historic outage data archive from 2014 to 2022.

🌍 Addressing energy justice questions through pattern analysis.

📆 Main presentation at the FOS4G conference and data availability for specific requests.