User Community

Networking with other utility users is often the best way to get answers to your questions or identify opportunities to extend the benefits of your GIS. ESRI supports user interaction through a variety of conferences, special interest group meetings, and user communication forums, both face-to-face and electronically.

The ESRI Electric and Gas User Group

EGUG meets every year during the fall to share ideas. Each year a member utility hosts the event. This international meeting draws a wide range of users from small municipal utilities to large global utilities.

Electric & Gas User Group Charter [PDF]

Letter from 2008 EGUG President Ted Kircher [PDF]

EGUG Hot Topics Forum

EGUG Hot Topics are issues important to the community. Input on the topics are collected through the discussion forum, part of the Electric and Gas Utilities Discussion Conference.

2008 Hot Topics	Leads
Spatial Adjustment Projects and Tools	Raymond Brunner, City of Safford
Change Management (Software upgrades, Migrations, Best Practices)	Nargis Ladha, Hydro One and Gathen Garcia, PNM
Content Management (Imagery, File Geodatabase, Stored displays, Archiving)	Nargis Ladha, Hydro One
Partial Posting and Version Management	Rich Faglier, Georgia Power
Replication and Latency	Ian Fitzgerald, Truckee Donner PUD
Mobile GIS (Security, Licensing)	David Hollema, United Power
Performance	Chris Carpenter, PNM

EGUG Annual Meeting

Proceedings now available from the 2007 Electric and Gas User Group, October 8–11, 2007, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tennessee.

Review EGUG Presentations

• EGUG 2006
• EGUG 2005
• EGUG 2004
• EGUG 2003