
Utilities are responsible for managing and maintaining a complex grid of equipment, assets, and customers. The Kensington Gas and Electric Company (KG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock. KG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 2.8 million households in over three states.
A Utility company that has been acquiring land for decades can have up to hundreds of thousands of land agreements. These land agreements come in all shapes and sizes but most are analog representations of deeds, easement or right-of-way descriptions, as well as permits. Because this data is not digitally structured, it is all but unusable to inform intelligent decision-making to improve the reliability of the utility. Land and GIS departments are forced to hand map based on need creating large backlogs and delays because:
Software automation
Data layers that are inseparable and without gaps allow for precision polygons to be accurately placed onto the geography and hydrated with broad and deep attribute information.
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