The Itron Analytics solution encompasses products and services designed to turn data into faster, more informed and increasingly automated decision-making. In the conference Knowledge Center, Jeff Owen from Itron discussed the latest updates for Itron’s water and gas analytics. Itron’s analytics provide utilities with insight into their system data to give them actionable intelligence throughout all aspects of the business from operations and planning to collections and customer service.


Itron is excited to work with the California Energy Commission, Clean Power Research, the California ISO and utility partners Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric Company on a new project to help reduce net load forecast uncertainty by producing high-accuracy solar generation forecasts and linking them to net load forecasts. Project goals and objectives will be met by applying research in the California ISO (CAISO) and electric utility operations.

Clean Power Research and Itron already supply the CAISO with solar forecasts and net load forecasts separately. Under this research effort, improved forecast methodologies will be developed and implemented starting in mid-2015 with full implementation by mid-to-late 2017.

Success in this area is anticipated to result in reductions in regulation service costs of more than $10 million per year by 2020. Additionally, these improvements will lower regulation service needs by over 2 million MWh per year by 2020, avoiding the emission of up to 2.7 million tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) per year.



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