Determining optimal power grid expansion in rural areas using routing algorithms (Geiger and Cader 2016)
Angel Naya Geiger und Catherina Cader
Geoinformation technologies offer far-reaching perspectives for the determination of power grid expansion routes in rural areas as well as their costs and are therefore of fundamental importance in decision-making in electrification planning. Taking into account various landscape characteristics, both the monetarily most favourable and the least environmentally impacting network routes can be determined.
This thesis describes an open source model based on the application of routing algorithms and 90 m resolution raster data.