New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)

School Power…Naturally Program

Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT)Hannibal Central School District

ESRI

Amy Work: 315.283.9413 or awork@iagt.org

First Round: 2003

• 50 schools across NY installed a 2 kW PV array and data collection system

First Round: 2003

• Access to Performance Data collected from each of the 50 schools

http://www.sunviewer.net/portals/NYSERDA_SPN/

First Round: 2003

• 64 lessons for grades 5 through 12 were developed

Spatial?? GIS??

• Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT)– Focus on the integration of GIS into

education environments

• IAGT’s School Power Naturally Project– Developing Wind and Solar lessons using Geographic

Information Systems (GIS)– Lessons focused for grades 7-10 – Use existing Performance Data (solar only)

• Four GIS Lessons:1. Energy Overview

What is our current Energy Consumption as a nation?

2. Solar What is the solar potential for my school and home?

3. WindWhat are characteristics of existing wind farms?What wind resources are in your community?

• Two formats to conduct the lessons:

Web-Based Exercises• ESRI ArcGIS Server

– Data stored in a File Geodatabase

– 3 Services (mxd’s) to allow the layering and functionality wanted

– ESRI Online Background Map & Imagery

Web-Based Exercises

• ESRI ArcGIS Server Caching– All raster data was cached– Significant improvement in response time– 15 Scale Levels for each layer– Millions of PNG images created– Approx. 4 Gb of disk space for each layer

Energy Exercise Data Layers

Solar Exercise Data Layers

Solar Projects by Zip CodeSolar Projects by County

Wind Exercise Data Layers

• Hey where’d you get that data? – NYSERDA– NREL– AWS Truewind– EIA– Horizon Wind Energy– NYISO

Amy Work: 315.283.9413 or awork@iagt.org

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