Overall Structure of Data in GEO

The goal is to collect data for individual systems and build tools to aggregate and analyze energy systems at regional and national level.

The data for individual systems are organized as four categories

• POWER PLANTS: Coal, Gas, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Oil, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Waste and Wind electric generation plants
• FUELS AND RESOURCES: Oil and Gas Fields; Coal and Uranium mines; Crude Oil Refineries; Solar, Wind and Biomass Potential; CO2 sequestration, Water Resources
• ENERGY TRANSMISSION: Oil and Gas Pipelines; Coal, LNG, Oil Ports; Rail and Road links; Shipping Lanes; Electric Power Grid
• ENERGY CONSUMERS: Industries, Population, Economic Activity, Towns and Cities

Each individual system/unit has a formatted factsheet with the following modular structure (See Help and Glossary files for details)

• IDENTIFIER: Name, IDs, overall ratings, and user selected default currency used for all money related/cost data on this page
• LOCATION: Precise Geo-spatial location using Google tools. Users can also add polylines for establishing links and polygons for showing footprint and impacted areas
• DESCRIPTION: This module contains a number of data fields that describe the plant
• UNIT INFORMATION: Captures information on the different units that make up a system. For each unit we also want to know the year in which emission control and monitoring devices were installed
• ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE: Table of individual infrastructure units related to this system. This is a menu driven facility to allow users to either link to data already in GEO or add a note. All placemarks, polylines and polygons marking a units and its associated infrastructure are displayed using API to Google Maps in individual factsheets.
• ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: This table captures the category of the environmental issue and a short description of it (1000 characters)
• MAJOR UPGRADES: This table captures a short description of major upgrades (1000 characters), their cost in selected currency and the years over which the upgrade was accomplished
• OWNER AND OPERATOR INFORMATION: List of owners (with percentage share) and type of ownership, unit operators, and regulatory authority
• ANNUAL PERFORMANCE: Annual performance figures arranged by decades for ease of view. This module includes a facility to plot selected data-fields versus years
• COMMENTS: Table of comments (each up to 1000 characters)
• REFERENCES: Table of references (each up to 1000 characters)
• NOTES: Caveats, clarifying notes, abbreviations, and system of units used

Tools to manipulate and analyze data are summarized in Overview of Tools and Features