Itron and GE Vernova Pioneer Unification of Grid Edge and Grid Operations Data, Giving Utilities Real-Time Insights Needed to Enable a More Reliable, Resilient Grid

Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water, and GE Vernova, a planned, purpose-built global energy company, today announced a collaboration designed to help utilities around the world employ grid data to operate and orchestrate the distribution grid in real-time to enable a more reliable, resilient grid for the end user.

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Itron and GE Vernova are leading the way and plan to share innovative data fabric technology and build a unified data model to ease the integration and utilization of data from the edge (behind-the-meter) to the core (grid control room) by connecting the two for real-time data insights for utilities and grid operators. Bringing together grid edge data with operations data will close gaps in visibility that previously prevented utilities from identifying and resolving grid issues quickly and efficiently.

By integrating Itron’s Grid Edge Intelligence solutions with GE Vernova’s innovative GridOS orchestration software, the companies will enable utilities to address grid operations challenges brought about by renewable energy generation and behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), such as customer-owned solar, EV charging infrastructure, or battery storage. Solutions resulting from the collaboration will enable grid operations managers and analysts to make more strategic use of high-resolution data collected from the grid edge through the head-end to Itron’s DataHub, leading to better forecasts and the ability to provide dynamic load management capacity via a high-fidelity analysis of response and resolution grid constraints.

GridOS leverages unified access and integration of distributed data and events in real-time by enabling local autonomous action at the grid edge or by triggering events in the control room. Itron and GE Vernova software solutions are expected to activate vast numbers of aggregated DERs to help ensure grid reliability. Because these capabilities require data at a scale of millions of endpoints —Itron’s grid edge solution portfolio, which builds on Itron’s decades-long leadership in automated meter infrastructure (AMI)—and GE Vernova’s GridOS data fabric, which provides the federated data foundation for grid orchestration, plays an essential role in capturing and processing real-time intelligence across the entire grid network.