GIS Utilization for Redistributing the Electricity Network Power on Rural Areas

Abstract

The electrical networks in rural area have being distributed in randomly way, this lead to the problems of: high cost, losses in power, and difficult access. Geographic information system (GIS) is the most successful package for solving the problems that related by spatial data and analysis.  This paper presents REG (Redistributed of Electrical network based-on GIS). Samraa city in Iraq is selected to collect spatial data for the current situation of electricity distribution. REG have been applied to solve the problem of electrical network distribution, it uses the factors: save cost, Efficiency, and accessibility. Which make benefits of the mentioned factors as: save cost (19.2%), accessibility (95%), save power (14%).

Keywords: Electric network distribution, GIS network, power loses.