GIS technology:
GIS could be used to derive diverse information for efficient technical and commercial management of a power distribution utility, e.g., capacity analysis, investment cost estimation, estimation of yearly peak loads of medium and low voltage transformers, calculations of power flow, and technical and commercial losses in the network, and so on.
Proprietary software tools, like SMALLWORLD, PTI, and POWERON, between others, could leverage the GIS database through offering a basket of customised solutions which range from load flow and power loss analyses, network reinforcement, reconfiguration and line design, capacitor and substation placement, relay and fuse co-ordination and etc., to outage and supply complaint management, and job planning and control. The computerized integration of information along with the spatially dispersed links has the ability to greatly enhance the decision making procedure and documentation.