Season 2 Episode 2 GIS Mapping Software & Tools

GIS for Energy Needs Assessment

Hosted by Opeyemi Kazeem-Jimoh  ·  Guest: Akansha Saklani

This episode talks about the role of GIS in the energy sector, from needs assessment to supply planning and distribution.

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Show Notes

Ever wondered what GIS can do in the energy sector, from needs assessment to supply planning and distribution. With the world looking towards more sustainable supply and management of energy, in this episode, learn how GIS plays a part as Opeyemi had a chat with Akansha Saklani of the World Resources Institute (WRI).

Akansha also introduces us to the Energy Access Explorer (EAE), an amazing open-source energy access tool that is powered entirely by GIS and open source data and technologies, and its launch in Sub-Saharan Africa.


The platform use GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) at its core, alongside Postgres Database and PostgRest for API call.

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