Member Spotlight | Itron

Itron innovates new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water.  As a proven global leader with customers in over 100 countries, we build innovative solutions that create new efficiencies and connect communities, encourage conservation and increase resourcefulness — today and in the future.  At Itron, we help drive the transition to cleaner energy and water delivery while transforming the way grid operators address critical challenges to enable a more resilient, reliable grid.

Unlocking the Power of Data

Utilities today are producing an unprecedented amount of data, but legacy approaches to accessing the true value of that data are costly and time-consuming. 

Itron’s innovative DataHub platform offers a centralized, scalable and highly integrated data management platform for utilities and third parties to facilitate the sharing of not just metering and billing information, but also a wide variety of grid edge data.  Aligning these solutions with the Green Button standard is critical to ensure all parties have secure access to insights and data needed for a distributed energy future.

Itron + the Green Button Alliance

As a member of the Green Button Alliance, Itron will help ensure that the data and access mechanisms from the next generation of meters, grid edge sensors and other endpoints are properly aligned with the Green Button standard.  On-board Linux computing and Wi-Fi connectivity enable these endpoints to create new data streams such as load disaggregation profile data (including PV, EV and battery storage data), real-time 1-second interval streaming data, and transformer connectivity modelling and loading data, most of which will require easy, secure, customer authorized data access mechanisms to create maximum value.

Itron and the GBA’s collaboration is critical to broadening adoption of standards-based Green Button data technologies that enable energy and water utilities around the world to offer secure, customer authorized data-access and data-sharing platforms.  This is becoming increasingly important as the adoption of distributed energy resources continues to rise, and consumer, utility and third-party requirements for better insight into energy usage continue to grow.

-Luke Scheidler, senior product manager, Itron.

Driving the Energy Transition

Together, Itron and the Green Button Alliance are supporting the development and adoption of standards that both streamline and provide governance for using new data streams.  This is critical as the transition to cleaner, modernized energy sources gains momentum.