{"id":122531,"date":"2013-05-30T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/unlocking-british-columbias-hydropower-potential\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T06:00:14","slug":"unlocking-british-columbias-hydropower-potential","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/analytics\/analytics\/unlocking-british-columbias-hydropower-potential","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking British Columbia&#039;s Hydropower Potential"},"author":4911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,25741,23051],"tags":[25751,25761,39411,24981,31821,39421,23391,32891,23081],"industry":[],"product":[42661],"class_list":["post-122531","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-electric-gas","category-water","tag-arcgis-for-electric","tag-arcgis-for-gas","tag-electricity","tag-hydro","tag-river","tag-spatial-analyst","tag-spatial-analytics","tag-stream","tag-utilities","product-arcgis-solutions"],"acf":{"short_description":"GIS Assessment Model Uncovers Optimal Sites for Renewable Energy Production\n\nThis article was originally posted in the Spring 2013 issue ...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thumb1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"Unlocking British Columbia's Hydropower Potential\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em><strong>GIS Assessment Model Uncovers Optimal Sites for Renewable Energy Production<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article was originally posted in the Spring 2013 issue of ArcNews.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article here:\u00a0<a title=\"ArcNews: Spring 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/esri-news\/arcnews\/spring13articles\/unlocking-british-columbias-hydropower-potential\"><strong>Unlocking British Columbia&#8217;s Hydropower Potential<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, see the\u00a0<a title=\"Kerr Wood Leidal, consulting engineers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kwl.ca\/\">Kerr Wood Leidal<\/a> presentation slides from Ryan Taylor and Nan Dai&#8217;s presentation at the 2012 Esri International User Conference:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Rapid Hydropower Assessment Model Identifying Hydroelectric Sites Using GIS\" href=\"http:\/\/proceedings.esri.com\/library\/userconf\/proc12\/papers\/2_99.pdf\">http:\/\/proceedings.esri.com\/library\/userconf\/proc12\/papers\/2_99.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4911,"user_firstname":"Caitlin","user_lastname":"Scopel","nickname":"Caitlin Scopel","user_nicename":"coscopel","display_name":"Caitlin Scopel","user_email":"CScopel@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:31","user_description":"Senior Project Manager for the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Environment Team. 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