Rochester Public UtilitiesRochester, Minnesota

Rochester Public Utilities

• Electric System established 1894– Serve ~47,000 meters– Cover ~60 square miles– ~185 megawatts of generation

• Water System established in 1887– Serve ~36,000 meters– 34 deep wells– 19 Towers

GIS at RPU

• Started in 1992 – more actively in 1999• Currently have over 70 users• Used in all areas of RPU.• Software used

– ESRI’s ArcGIS suite– Miner and Miner’s ArcFM, Designer and

Responder

Some GIS Uses at RPU

• Water & Electric Locations

• Address Location• Asset Management• New Construction

Design• Marketing Analysis• Customer Service• Outage Management

• Facilities Management

• Osmose Testing• Wellhead Protection• Tree Trimming• Environmental

Management• Service Assured

tracking• Load Management

Studies

Current Projects

• Expand outage management capabilities

• Improve GIS for field crews

• Increase use of ArcServer

• Server high availability upgrade

Demo

Desktop view

Address Searching

Water System with Aerial Photo

OutageCall EntryForm

Outage Showing Affected Customers

AffectedDevices

andServicesDuring Outage

Questions?Rochester Public Utilities

Greg Rowley507-280-1609

growley@rpu.org

Ryan Moore507-280-1648

rmoore@rpu.org