Generator of Yaotsu Old Power Plant

Feeding the Studies: Integrating GIS with Engineering Analysis and Planning Tools

Studies are only as good as the model they receive Every major grid decision now starts with a study: can the system handle new load, more DER, wildfire risk, or a major capital project? Those studies are only as good as the network model they are fed. In many utilities, that model is still built by hand in engineering tools from one-off GIS exports. The process is fragile, slow, and dependent on a few people who know how to clean things up each time. Engineers learn to distrust GIS data, and they spend their time repairing the model instead of answering the business question. ...

June 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1232 words · Joe Marsh
Hooknose Peak

Tracing Once, Using Everywhere: Propagated Values for OMS and ADMS

Tracing Once, Using Everywhere: Propagated Values for OMS and ADMS ArcGIS Utility Network tracing already gives us the path through the network, but OMS and ADMS usually need more than a list of traversed features. Export Subnetwork can produce JSON that external systems consume, and propagation lets that export carry network‑derived answers instead of forcing those systems to recalculate everything downstream. ArcGIS Pro 3.7 and the 2026 Network Management Release finally closed a gap I’ve seen in a lot of OMS/ADMS projects. For years I’ve watched teams bolt on custom extractors, ETL, and middleware just to answer questions the Utility Network is already capable of answering: ...

May 23, 2026 · 8 min · 1519 words · Joe Marsh