Distributed Energy Management

Connecting, Analyzing and Optimizing DERs

Optimize the benefits of distributed energy resources and their impact on the grid with Itron's DERMs solution.

Turning behind-the-meter DERs into grid assets.

With rapid integration of renewable and distributed energy technologies onto the grid, you’re challenged with maintaining power quality, balancing supply and demand, and ensuring adequate distribution capacity. Itron brings you the tools and expertise to help you do exactly that.

Connect

Connect

An ever-expanding ecosystem of compatible behind-the-meter devices to support customer choice and DER adoption

Analyze

Analyze

Real-time visibility and forecasting of DER operations and their impacts on the low-voltage distribution grid and the bulk power system

Optimize

Optimize

Dynamically orchestrate DER operations to deliver a range of load-shaping outcomes, from delivering aggregate firm load reductions to protecting vulnerable distribution infrastructure

Built upon the foundation of Itron’s IntelliSOURCE distributed energy resource management system (DERMS), Itron’s DER Optimizer solution enables utilities to expand their legacy demand response programs to include a wide range of DERs, including electric vehicles, smart inverters, battery storage systems and other flexible loads. In turn, DER Optimizer’s real-time analytics and optimization engine allows utilities to strategically grow their program portfolio from traditional reliability programs to a wide range of DER-based grid services, including economic dispatch, non-wires alternatives, local grid balancing and microgrid use cases. Itron’s mission is to help utilities turn behind-the-meter DERs into valuable grid assets that deliver improved reliability, resiliency, customer engagement and sustainability.


Residential EV Charging Management Pilots Available Today

FAST IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS
Low-cost pilots are available today for you to quickly gain the experience you need to validate the benefits of behavioral EV charging programs or implement managed EV charging on a small scale.

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Working Together to Increase EV Adoption

Seamlessly integrate residential EVs into your existing portfolio of residential demand response programs under a single, proven platform just like Duke Energy Florida.

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Open Standards

Open Standards

Customer choice is a key ingredient in successful and reliable DER programs. To achieve this, Itron’s DER Optimizer embraces open standards at its core, including OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, and OVGIP.

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Flexible Connectivity

Flexible Connectivity

While we all live in a world with many connectivity options and networks, Itron’s DER Optimizer leverages its AMI networks and devices to connect to DERs wherever possible, resulting in lower costs, higher availability and lower latency visibility and control. Where AMI network connectivity is not possible, DER Optimizer provides internet and cellular-based options that can seamlessly operate with AMI connected devices as one system.

Best in Class Security

Best-in-Class Security

Protecting DER control platforms from malicious cyber-attacks is a critical requirement, and Itron’s DER Optimizer delivers super-secure communications from the back office all the way down to the device circuit board.

Realtime Analytics and Optimization

Real-time Analytics and Optimization

Turning DERs into true grid assets requires real-time visibility and situational awareness of DER operations and grid conditions. DER Optimizer leverages native integrations with Itron’s DI platform and networks to deliver real-time DER analytics and optimization at the edge with latencies that cannot be matched through purely cloud-based solutions.

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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Have utilities gained enough confidence in Machine Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to adopt autonomous managed Electric Vehicle (EV) charging as a tool in their Demand Response (DR) Programs?

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Customer Successes

Grid-interactive Water Heaters Expand DR Programs

“We are committed to providing highly reliable and affordable electric and water services to our customers. This program is another way in which we are taking advantage of Itron’s DERM solutions to improve grid management and energy efficiency.”

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15-20% electric cost reduction

Raising the Bar: Automated Residential Price-Based Demand Response

“The Energy Select program results in significant improvements in customer satisfaction and proven reductions in peak demand. Itron has been a valued partner in helping us bring this innovative program to the marketplace. It was only natural that we would extend our work with them to enhance the Energy Select program by adopting the IntelliSOURCE platform.”

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Customer satisfaction rates as high as 95%

Empowering Customers to Meet Demand Response Goals

“Our program reflects PHI’s commitment to reduce energy consumption and to support initiatives. Itron gives us more flexibility to manage peak energy demand and controls needed to optimize events to ensure we have the capacity available.”

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Over 456,000 energy management devices installed, more than 400MW load reduction
Managing Electric Vehicle Loads

Managing Electric Vehicle Loads

Duke Energy’s EV Off-Peak Credit Pilot Program is off to a successful start using Itron’s DER Optimizer. Learn more about their discoveries during implementation.

Featured Use Cases

Electricity Smart Cities
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Behavior Programs

Engage your customers with incentives, data and information to drive lasting changes in customer load shapes, while gaining in-depth knowledge of DER operations and customer preferences.

Electricity Smart Cities
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System Reliability

Supplement your contingency and spinning reserves with firm load curtailment from DERs to ensure system reliability during weather- or event-driven emergencies.

Electricity Smart Cities
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Economic Dispatch

Leverage DER resources to bid energy, capacity and ancillary services into wholesale markets and produce new revenue streams for you and your customers.

Electricity Smart Cities
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Non-wires Alternatives

Use DER control to manage localized congestion on your distribution network and defer significant infrastructure investments and upgrades, increasing the DER hosting capacity without compromising reliability.

Electricity Smart Cities
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Grid Asset Protection

Protect vulnerable distribution infrastructure from dangerous over-loading and over-voltage conditions driven by DERs through real-time monitoring, situational awareness and locally optimized control.

Electricity Smart Cities
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Bring Your Own Device

Leverage customer-owned devices and provide seamless on-boarding processes to expand the DERs resources available for control without the need for field installation and inventory management.

Explore Related Products and Services

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IntelliSOURCE Enterprise

IntelliSOURCE Enterprise helps you manage energy efficiency programs and distributed energy resources. 

IntelliSOURCE Express

IntelliSOURCE Express

For electric cooperative or municipal utilities, IntelliSOURCE Express is an enterprise distributed energy resource management (DERM) solution designed specifically to meet your needs.

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IntelliSOURCE Commercial and Industrial (C&I)

C&I businesses possess the potential to drive the largest impacts in demand response (DR) and distributed energy resource (DER) programs. Implement an interactive end-to-end solution for your largest customers.

Forecast as a Service

Forecast as a Service

Simply provide updated energy data and Forecast as a Service (FaaS) delivers updated forecasts. You get the power and accuracy of the Itron forecasting system with Itron’s modeling expertise without incurring the upfront cost of acquiring hardware, software or the on-going cost of operating and maintaining the system.

GenX LCS

GenX LCS

Itron’s new network-enabled load control switch (LCS) provides graceful, low-cost, CIP-compliant method to transform your legacy DR programs into modernized DR resources with deep visibility, telemetry, and control capabilities without abandoning your existing devices.

Enabling Real-time Visibility

Enabling Real-time Visibility

Manage new variable grid assets, transform your low-voltage distribution network and improve the return on your infrastructure investments.

EV Charging Optimizer

EV Charging Optimizer

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

DER Optimizer

DER Optimizer

Built upon the foundation of Itron’s IntelliSOURCE DERMS solution, Itron’s DER Optimizer solution enables utilities to expand their legacy DR programs to include a wide range of DERs, including electric vehicles, smart inverters, battery storage systems and other flexible loads.

Grid Edge Optimizer

Grid Edge Optimizer

Monitor voltage levels, gain increased location awareness, optimize the low-voltage grid and protect grid assets with real-time visibility and insight using Grid Edge Optimizer.

Operations Optimizer

Operations Optimizer

Improve operational efficiency by monitoring and managing your AMI system, optimizing performance, identifying asset issues, and investigate and resolving revenue concerns with Operations Optimizer.

Resources

AMI Network Load Control

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Cellular Load Control

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Turning Behind-the-Meter DERs into Grid Assets: Opportunities, Challenges, and Principles for Success

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