Building Geodata-Pipelines for the Solar Industry

Internship Report

Basics: Geographic Information (Geodata)

id	name	category	elevation_m	geometry
1	Berlin Center	city	34	POINT(13.4050 52.5200)
2	Potsdam Station	transport	38	POINT(13.0657 52.3914)
3	Forest Plot A	sample_site	72	POINT(12.9876 52.4123)
4	Lake View	observation	29	POINT(13.1025 52.4568)
5	Weather Sensor 01	sensor	45	POINT(13.2211 52.3347)

Minn, Michael. Visualizing Terrain in ArcGIS Pro. https://michaelminn.net/tutorials/arcgis-pro-terrain/

Data and information which has an association with a location relative to Earth

Basics: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data.

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Internship Overview

Company: Enerparc AG

Industry domain: Solar industry

Duration: 360 hours over 4 months

Role: GIS Developer

My Background

Bachelor in Geography

Specialised in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems

4 years of experience in tutoring RS/GIS

Currently pursuing Master in Computational Science

Motivation

First industry experience

How to handle geodata pipelines?

How is the dev experience in a non-tech company?

Enerparc Expertise

ENERPARC AG is involved in every stage of solar energy projects, acting as both a project developer, operator and a service provider for third parties.

ENERPARC AG. https://www.enerparc.de

Enerparc in numbers

Covers the electricity needs of 1.2 million households

ENERPARC AG. https://www.enerparc.de

Enerparc Solar Parcs in Germany

ENERPARC AG. https://www.enerparc.de/en/projects#solar-parks-germany

My Team

Project Development: GIS Development & Administration

4 Persons: 1 Team lead, 1 Full time, 2 Working Students

Problem Statement

Identification of development possibilities

Monitoring of market activity

Daily updated geodata on energy assets of Germany

A process where geodata is periodicaly extracted from an input source, transformed with buisness logic, and loaded into a geodatabase. (ETL)

Input Source

Is an official registry of all facilities and units in the German energy system. It is maintained by the Bundesnetzagentur.

Output Destination

Extraction Methods

Transformation Methods

Loading Methods

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