ELECTRIC UTILITIESGrid edge challenges demand innovation

Technology advancements. Regulatory frameworks. Renewables. EVs. Shifting consumer behaviors. They’re just some of the challenges electric utility companies face. Itron is here to help.

Challenges and Benefits

The grid will evolve more in the next 10 years than in the last 100

Are you ready? Electric utilities face diverse challenges in today’s evolving energy landscape. Itron is here to help integrate renewable energies, address security concerns, navigate compliance and meet rising customer expectations.

  • RELY ON A SMARTER GRID

    Reduce outage detection times, detect unsafe conditions and boost grid reliability and resilience with an intelligent network and data analytics.

  • INCREASE OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY

    Unlike traditional ADMS systems, Itron’s grid edge solutions deliver operational visibility from the substation to the gride edge.

  • CONNECT AND OPTIMIZE DERs

    Maintain power quality, balance supply and demand and ensure optimal capacity as you integrate distributed energy resources (DERs).

  • PARTNER WITH INDUSTRY LEADERS

    With over 8,000 utility customers in 100 countries, we’ve partnered for decades with the world’s most progressive IOUs, municipal and cooperative utilities and cities.

Featured products and solutions

  • Distributed Intelligence

    Gain unprecedented insight into grid operations, while improving customer engagement and increasing grid safety.

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  • DER Optimizer

    Expand legacy DR programs to include a wide range of DERs, including electric vehicles, solar smart inverters, battery storage systems and other flexible loads.

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  • Smart Electricity Meters

    Deploy intelligent devices featuring two-way communication, remote meter reading, TOU and DR applications, tamper detection, data analytics, renewable integration and consumer engagement capabilities.

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Customer successes

    • Tampa Electric Company

      The Art of the Possible

      Improved outage detection, operational savings and enhanced customer service are all possible with distributed intelligence.

    • BC Hydro

      Reducing Theft, Improving Safety and Lowering Costs for Customers

      Data from Itron’s smart electricity grid solution helped cut energy theft, improved safety and kept costs low for nearly 2 million consumers.

      Cut energy theft by 80%.

      • ComEd

        Benefits of a Single Network for Multiple Smart Grid Services

        “The investments in the smart grid program are producing a stronger, more reliable system with fewer outages. Those results mean less operational costs and greater savings for our customers.”

        46% reduction in frequency of customer interruptions and 32% reduction in customers impacted by storms

        Grid Operations

        Lower costs, improve results and address challenges like reliability, power quality, transformer loading, phase identification and meter-to-transformer connectivity—all the way to the grid edge with Itron’s Grid Operations solutions.

        EV Charging Optimizer

        Accelerate fleet electrification and EV adoption with smart charging management, grid analytics and orchestration. Leverage real-time data to optimize the grid and EV charging using Itron’s EV Charging Optimizer solution.

        Resources

        • Video

          Welcome to the Active Grid

        • eBook

          DEM: A New Era of Demand Response

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        • Brochure

          Distributed Intelligence

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        • White Paper

          Short-term Load Forecast Modeling