System Benefits

EDZ is making beneficial use of the enterprise GIS solution. EDZ employees readily adopted the technology and applied it into their daily operation. The introduction of the GIS provided EDZ the benefits to:

• Attain better accuracy of distribution lines technical losses calculation thus better monitoring of fraud energy consumptions.
• Reduce distribution losses including technical and non-technical for both Medium Voltage and Low Voltage networks from about 25% to less than 5% which is the lowest in Lebanon and most probably in the whole region.
• Achieve a maximum voltage drop under 5% at the furthest end of any LV network by making use of the GIS radial power flow calculations technique.
• Apply fact based management with more up-to-date, precise and reliable information about the network resources.

Increase day-to-day operations productivity by providing more facilities for effective labor management and enhancing technological capabilities by allowing more time to be devoted to the data analysis rather than data collection. In addition EDZ is expanding the uses of the GIS to interface and consequently increase the functionalities of some other systems implemented at the company. GIS provides an interface to the centralized Remote Medium Voltage Fault Indication and Line Status Monitoring system, which can detect faults that might occur in the electric network, the geographic location of these faults is then pinpointed. GIS works together with the GPS Fleet Management system to geographically display instantaneous crews location. Ultimately the implementation of the GIS allowed EDZ to provide better customer service by contributing into offering quicker response, providing more precise information and enhancing power delivery.