Introduction to Electric Utility Network Foundation

Electric Utility Network Foundation can be used to accelerate electric utility network implementations.

Electric utilities provide electricity through a network of cables, poles, and related equipment. Access to a reliable electric network is essential, especially in hot summer and cold winter months. To maintain a reliable and safe network, organizations must have an accurate representation of their assets and how they are connected. This knowledge can decrease outage times and increase network reliability.

The first, and most critical, step a utility must take to manage its network is to create an inventory of its electric assets. An electric utility cannot effectively manage their electrical network and plan improvements unless they know how many assets they have, and where they are. Representing that asset inventory as a utility network provides organizations with the advanced analytics of a digital twin.

The Electric Utility Network Foundation solution delivers a set of capabilities that help utilities model their electric assets in ArcGIS with a utility network and accelerate their utility network implementation.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Electric Utility Network Foundation requires the following:

• ArcGIS Enterprise
• ArcGIS Pro 3.3

Note:

To deploy this solution, you must have an ArcGIS organizational account. After deploying the solution, you can download it from your organization and begin using it in ArcGIS Pro.

Information products

Electric Utility Network Foundation includes the following:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Electric Unbalanced Distribution Utility Network Essentials	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project package, asset type map, Utility Data Management Support toolbox, style files, data dictionaries, and an essentials asset package geodatabase with sample data.	Creator ArcGIS Advanced Editing user type add-on
Electric Utility Network Expanded	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project package, asset type map, Utility Data Management Support toolbox, style files, data dictionaries, and an expanded asset package geodatabase with sample data.	Creator ArcGIS Advanced Editing user type add-on

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
3.1	The following updates have been made to the Electric Utility Network Expanded and the Electric Unbalanced Distribution Utility Network Essentials templates. The Tier definitions were updated to include equipment that were previously excluded. The terminal assignment was updated for Medium Voltage Regulator: AC Station Bank to align with other Regulators. A network attribute of Minimum Bend Radius was assigned to the field minimumbendradius on the StructureEdgeObjects object class to support duct banks. The field dateinstalled was removed from the ElectricEdgeObject object class to eliminate duplicate fields. The installdate field should be used instead. Detailed field descriptions were added to the data dictionaries to help users understand the use of the fields. The style files in the Electric_Utility_Network_Expanded template and the Unbalanced_Distribution_Utility_Network_Essentials template were updated to include missing information. The following updates have been made to the Utility Data Management Support toolbox version 3.3.1: An issue was resolved with the Simple Data Mapping tool that was caused by running the tool in a cloned python environment. A new option to generate a terminal pop-up was added to the Configure UN Layers tool to visualize terminal information. A new tool was added called Copy Fields and Domains From Mapping which uses the Data Mapping workbook to copy fields from the source workspace to the target asset package.
3.0	The solution now includes the Electric Unbalanced Distribution Utility Network Essentials ArcGIS Pro project with a fundamental schema. The Electric asset package has been renamed to Electric Utility Network Expanded asset package. The Utility Data Management Support toolbox has been updated to support ArcGIS Pro 3.3. The Electric Utility Network Expanded asset package now includes the following enhancements: A previous change to the asset package has been reverted to add Unknown Asset Type back to all Asset Groups. An asset type of Overhead Neutral has been added to the Medium Voltage Overhead Conductor asset group in the ElectricLine feature class. Arresters have been added back as spatial features Domains have been updated to ensure that a code does not have a description conflicts when domains are assigned to the same field but to different asset groups. The name of nominal voltage fields has been changed to better reflect the field use and meaning For a full list of updates, refer to the change log.
2.2	Assigned a directional terminal configurations to directional transformers asset types in the ElectricJunctionObject class.
2.1	Configured phase propagation for all tiers. A new Utility Data Management Support toolbox to support ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and ArcGIS Pro 3.1. Incorporated nonspatial units into a bank model, which requires less visual detail. Added new generic Asset Types to device classes. Added Transformer Winding Asset Groups to Devices and JunctionObjects. Split Electric Line Conductor Asset Groups into Overhead, Underground and Submersible. Revised Phase Domain and removed bit 8. Updated the data model in the solution to version 5.1. For a full list of updates refer to the change log.
2.0	Updated the data model to integrate requirements from the Utility Network Community (UNC) founded by European electric distribution and transmission companies. Rename option added to provide UNC naming convection. Added an additional bit (8-De-energized, Traceable) to support exporting de-energized equipment as part of a subnetwork. Enhanced support for a balanced distribution three phase system. Added support for functional and locational modeling of equipment. Additional attributes to support integration with external systems. Migrated related tables to non-spatial objects. Expanded assets types to include more station located equipment. Updated device asset types to include a voltage class suffix. Changed the name of PhasesCurrent to PhaseChange to more clearly articulate the fields purpose. Revised Network Attributes to improve tracing and subnetwork management. Added new attribute rules, contingent attributes values (CAV) and utility network rules to improve data quality. Increased the granularity of configurations to allow for more focused deployments. Improved the Utility Data Management Support tools. Languages have been removed from the Rename table. The data model in the solution has been updated to version 5.
1.1	Name changed from Electric Data Management for ArcGIS Enterprise to Electric Utility Network Foundation.
1.0	The first release of Electric Data Management for ArcGIS Enterprise The data model in the solution has been updated to version 4. For a full list of updates, refer to the change log.