ELECTRIC UTILITIES Grid edge challenges demand innovation

Technology advancements. Regulatory frameworks. Renewables. EVs. Severe weather. Shifting front-line workforce demographics. 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, protect workers, respond to storms, and meet rising customer expectations.

RELY ON A SMARTER GRID

Reduce outage detection times, detect unsafe conditions, predict storm impacts, 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 nearly 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.

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.

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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

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.

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