Clean Energy
BY RYAN TAYLOR AND NAN DAI
GIS Locates
Hydroelectric Power
in British Columbia
n an ideal world, all our electricity generation would
be clean and renewable. However, in much of the
world, that���s not the case. Oil, gas, nuclear and other
energies still are used in areas where it���s not easy to
find cleaner electricity-generation resources. However,
that might change.
In British Columbia, Canada, GIS technology was
used to find, evaluate, and cost out clean and renewable electricity-generation resources. Using this innovative technology, thousands of possible hydroelectric
sites were located that may never have otherwise
been found, giving BC Hydro opportunities for increasing its renewable electricity generation. In the future,
this technology might be used in other areas of the
world to find new resources for clean and renewable
electricity generation, reducing the world���s overall
usage of greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels.
It all started in early 2010, when BC Hydro was
told it must submit an integrated resource plan (IRP)
to the British Columbia government that would meet
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