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Maxar provides insight into energy infrastructure projects The global demand for energy continues to rise. In 2011, world consumption increased 2.5%. In 2012, automobile production topped 66 million vehicles. The race is on to bring new sources of energy online, but tracking the progress of these complex infrastructure construction projects is difficult. The Energy Infrastructure Development Report is the first high-resolution earth imagery and development program that brings intelligence and insight to energy infrastructure monitoring and analysis. Genscape, founded in 2000, is the originator of real-time energy supply information to support decision making for energy industry marketers, traders, regulators, distributors, and other participants. The company relies on many sources to produce its analyses; air surveillance, ground reports, a vast network of public data sources and in-house corporate announcements. "We relied heavily on local pilots for air surveillance and field technicians on the ground to gather our intelligence," explains Jason Fuchs, product development engineer. "Those resources posed geographic limitations, and at times the quality and accuracy of the data was not as good as it could be." Imagery that drives intelligence GENSCAPE (VIEW-READY) info@maxar.com maxar.com A new perspective to energy reporting With the business of building new energy infrastructure booming, particularly in the United States, Genscape sought new ways to satisfy the increasing demand for timely, accurate, and more meaningful information on just when these massive multi-year projects would come online and become productive. "Satellite imagery appeared to present an entirely new and better way for us to collect information," says David Francoeur, Genscape's Chief Marketing Officer. "And Maxar, at the ready with the world's largest constellation of high-resolution commercial satellites, appeared to be the ideal partner." The majority of the top 50 US and European power generating, trading, and marketing companies, as well as the US Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), rely on Louisville, Kentucky- based Genscape, a leading provider of real-time power supply information, to support decision- making that helps increase efficiencies and reduce market risks. case study U.S.A.