ecoPtG
21. December 2015Dr. Kathrin Goldammer to be managing director of Reiner Lemoine Institut
8. January 2016
Abstract
Geoinformation technologies provide wide-ranging perspectives in determining expansion
paths and its costs which is essential for decision making in electrification planning. Considering several
landscape characteristics offers the creation of power grid paths with both least monetary cost
and least environmental impact. The present paper describes a detailed open source solution for the
planning of new power lines in rural areas by applying routing algorithms using raster data with a
resolution of 90 m.
Keywords: Rural electrification planning, routing algorithm, open source, R
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