Baltimore Gas and Electric Case Study

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Organization

Baltimore Gas & Electric Company

Project Objective

Convert more than 9,500 gas maps, 14,000 electric maps, 900,000 MicroStation drawings, and associated databases for utility services

Fast Facts

• BGE serves more than 1 million business and residential electric customers and 600,000 gas customers in central Maryland, an area that encompasses the city of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties

• 96 percent of BGE construction jobs are designed using the CAD/GIS application with Bentley Expert Designer as the design tool

• Since completion of the system in 2004, BGE has reduced IT spending for Bentley product-related costs by 80 percent while simultaneously delivering 75 percent more business value

Products Used

MicroStation

Bentley Expert Designer

Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (BGE) invested $37 million and five years in developing an enterprise-class geospatial data repository and associated applications. The system supports a wide range of corporate business processes and Bentley products play a significant role in the benefits achieved.

The BGE GIS and Bentley projects ultimately converted more than 9,500 gas maps, 14,000 electric maps, 900,000 MicroStation® drawings, and associated databases for use in the new CAD/GIS application. This amounted to about 15 million pieces of data with 120 million attribute fields. The GIS project team also developed 34 specialized applications for such functions as facilities design and pipe risk analysis. Projected estimates for average annual savings related to the gas system applications alone total $4 million per year.

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