Lifecycle of Geospatial Data in a High-Voltage Electrical Infrastructure Project: Geodesign Framework in the Electrical Network of Spain (REE) ^†

This paper presents the advances in the design and implementation of a geodesign framework and workflow for the development of HVEI projects, which is supported by corporate methodologies and by the execution of automatic models guaranteeing the traceability of the development of each project, in the different stages of its lifecycle. The ultimate goal is to minimize environmental, social and local impacts, while, at the same time, providing the system’s actors with support tools that facilitate planning and decision-making. Our framework integrates the principles of geodesign and harmonizes the corporate procedures in the project phases. It also takes into consideration the conditions alerted by other actors, through a design process guided by feedback-iteration-consensus mechanisms. In this way there is a participatory, transparent, visible and improved framework for the development of new electricity infrastructures. The geodesign framework that we present addresses the problem of managing geospatial information for the development of new HVEI projects with two fundamental approaches: (1) including all the geospatial information representative of each constraint or territorial restriction and, (2) defining procedures throughout the phases of each project to ensure that all projects are developed homogeneously in terms of scope, precision and depth of analysis.