Itron Report Reveals Real-time Data Analytics is Critical to Utilities, Cities and Consumers - Seite 2

The survey found that among all technology deployed by utilities for key use cases, data analytics is currently ranked between third and sixth, yet it moves to be in the top three investment priorities across the use cases of operational efficiency, extreme weather, personalization and sustainability in the next five years.

Utilities in each country have different perspectives on the most important use for data analytics:

	US	Australia	India	Spain	UK
1	Operational efficiency	New revenue streams	New revenue streams	Operational efficiency	Integrating renewables
2	New revenue streams	Operational efficiency	Operational efficiency	Resilience in extreme weather	New revenue streams
3	Integrating renewables	- Integrating renewables - Smart city services	Integrating renewables	- Personalized insights - Smart city services	- Personalized insights - Operational efficiency

While smart city services are ranked lower in the chart above, the deployment of solutions related to EV charging is a high concern for utilities especially as many countries and regions implement legislation around required adoption of EVs beginning in 2035. Today, EV charging ranks third in deployed smart city services but this moves to the No. 1 investment priority in the next five years.

“Smart meters and sensors provide the real-time data that will assist utilities in improving grid resiliency in the face of disruptions from weather, unpredictable demands from EVs, supply from renewables and growing urban populations. And as utilities implement the next generation of distributed intelligence solutions over the next five years, there will be unprecedented visibility into every area of the network, especially the areas that are least visible today,” added Donovan. “Utilities and communities will need that data—and those resulting analytics-driven insights—to meet enormous challenges that are only now taking shape.”