[Talk-gh] Existing Medium Voltage (MV) - Low Voltage (LV) Distribution Electric Grid

Daniel Paco DPaco at ecreee.org
Thu Mar 22 11:04:16 UTC 2018


Hi,

Increasing energy access in West Africa, and most specifically in rural areas, through the use of solar off-grid systems is going to become a reality in the next years.

Here at ECREEE, we are working in a project funded by the World Bank (ROGEP, Rural Off Grid Electrification Project) to support local and regional entrepreneurs and private sector to develop this market in West Africa.

To facilitate the energy planning, we are developing interactive data-driven maps. In these maps, one of the key datasets is the existing MV-LV distribution electric grid. Unfortunately, it is not easy to get this information from the national utilities. In some cases, these datasets exist in shapefile but are not shared, in other these datasets don’t exist in GIS format files, etc.

It would be great if the OSM communities in West African countries could map these MV-LV lines as it would be an enormous contribution to enrich the access to open datasets which are necessary for energy planning.

I do believe in OSM projects to make data available for everybody. When the official channel to make data open is slow, the change could come from the people…

Please, accept this email as a challenge.

Thank you for all contributions in OSM Ghana. OSM is becoming also a strong reality in West Africa, with many mappers and groups.

Best regards,
Daniel


DANIEL PACO ABENZA
GIS Specialist,
World Bank-ECREEE Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project
ECOWREX
Email: dpaco at ecreee.org<mailto:dpaco at ecreee.org>



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