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    Itron, Microsoft expand collaboration around Cloud-based Energy Management

    May 25, 2022
    The teaming up of Itron’s energy management with Microsoft’s cloud services will aim at industry challenges such as greenhouse gas emissions, zero carbon goals, asset management, network visibility on the grid, e-Mobility charging and distributed energy
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    Two of the nation’s technology giants are joining forces accelerating data cloud adoption in service of a decarbonized energy future.

    Energy management firm Itron is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft in developing cloud-based and grid edge solutions for the utilities and smart cities sectors. The two Pacific Northwest-based companies will partner on solutions that improve grid resilience, consumer engagement, operational efficiency and decarbonization.

    The teaming up of Itron’s energy management with Microsoft’s cloud services will aim at industry challenges such as greenhouse gas emissions, zero carbon goals, asset management, network visibility on the grid, e-Mobility charging and distributed energy resource loads. Utilities are dealing with expanding arrays of distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar and microgrids at the edge of their systems.

    With Microsoft, Itron is accelerating the extension of its Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), data management and analytics solutions to the cloud in global markets. This includes metering in both the electricity and water market segments.

    “Our collaboration will provide analytics and data-sharing capabilities for utilities and cities, so they can optimize their operations and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy,” said Don Reeves, senior vice president of Outcomes at Itron. “As utilities begin to deploy edge compute-enabled connected IoT platforms, a new level of collaboration and co-innovation is needed for the utilities to harvest the unprecedented opportunity for growth and creating value.”

    The expansion of the teamwork between Itron and Microsoft will enable high-fidelity data to be used at the edge of the utilities’ and municipalities connected Internet of Things platforms. This can aid utilities to better employ data analytics and tracking toward net-zero goals and EV charging infrastructure management, among other things.

    Itron provides energy management services to more than 8,000 utilities and other customers in more than 100 countries. It also manages more than three million streetlights worldwide as part of its energy efficiency initiative.

    About the Author

    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

    For EnergyTech editorial inquiries, please contact Managing Editor Rod Walton at [email protected].

    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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