The Internet of Things Generating a Buzz at CES in Las Vegas
It’s day three of the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and as always it’s living up to the hype. From cool innovations in drones and car concepts…
Finding the Right Tool
My desire to make popcorn for the evening of binge watching came to a sudden halt when the microwave door latch stuck. Undeterred by this setback, I…
CPS Energy Data Scientist Job Openings
One of our forecasting clients, CPS Energy located in San Antonio, Texas is looking for two Data Scientist positions as Market Analytics Program…
Not only Smart but Active – Distributed Intelligence for IoT
In the developing age of the Internet of Things (IoT), we must stay attune to emerging technologies and industry transformations. What if real IoT…
Save the Date – 14th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting & Training
Mark your calendars for 14th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting & Training. We’ll be in Scottsdale, Arizona at the W Hotel on May 17-20. There…
Connecting Today’s Cities for Greater Resourcefulness Tomorrow
The need to apply technology to solve real challenges in our communities is growing. Cities and utilities across the country are facing a broad range…
Are SAE Models Accurate?
If you follow Itron’s forecasting work, you know that we’ve employed Statistically Adjusted End Use (SAE) models since the early 2000’s. To date,…
IUW15 Knowledge Center – Spotlight on Itron Total Services and Solar Monitoring Solution
This afternoon we spoke with Itron’s Bryan Seal and Jeff Simmelink in the Knowledge Center to learn more about Itron® Total Services and our solar…
Don’t Show Me Big Data, Show Me the Right Data
The second Big Picture Session we attended today was “Don’t Show Me Big Data, Show Me the Right Data.” The session was moderated by Jill Feblowitz,…
What Will the Utility Business Model Look Like in 2025?
This year, we added new Big Picture sessions to the Itron Utility Week line up. The thought-provoking sessions were led by industry leaders and…
IUW15 Knowledge Center – Spotlight on Itron Riva
This afternoon, we caught up with Todd Tucker, senior director of solutions marketing at Itron, to learn more about ITRON RIVA™, the new edge…
Pressures on Smart Grid Business Cases
This afternoon we attended an Itron Utility Week breakout session with Tracy Tinsley, project manager, information management, at Duke Energy.…
Moving to a Single Multipurpose IP Network – Looking out to Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities
Itron Utility Week 2015 kicked off this morning with a great general session! We hope you had a chance to watch the livestream, but if you weren’t…
Innovating for the Future of Utilities: Itron and Cisco
It’s day two of the Knowledge Conference at one of the year’s most anticipated events – Itron Utility Week. Utility industry observers have…
Siemens Digital Grid – When It Comes to Resourceful Innovation – Agility Is Key
Utilities are facing tremendous uncertainty as the consumerization of energy drives a transformation of their business. The key to thriving in this…
A Solution for Utilities Looking to Affordably Upgrade Their Capacitor Bank Controllers to Include Ami Features and Benefits.
Nighthawk’s new CCU960 Cellular AMI Capacitor Bank controller plugs into any standard capacitor bank controller socket. It provides an…
CEPCI Senior Economist Position Available
One of our forecasting clients, Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (CEPCI) is seeking a Senior Economist with load forecasting duties.…
Smart City Vision Reaches the White House: Itron Joins Team of Partners to make Envision America a Reality
Cities and utilities across the country are facing a broad range of pressing problems and considering how to best navigate and utilize technology for…
EKPC Load Forecast Analyst Job Opening
One of our forecasting clients, EKPC, is looking for a load forecast analyst. East Kentucky Power has an opening for a Load Forecast Analyst in our…
New Research: Utility Customers Wanting More Communication, Smarter Thermostats
This blog was originally posted on Comverge.com. Itron acquired Comverge on June 1, 2017, and all future demand response blogs will be posted here.……
Peak Survey
Itron’s forecasting group is currently conducting an Electric Peak Load Modeling Survey. The purpose of this survey is to gather information about…
Comverge Ranked Number One Demand Response Provider by Navigant Research
This blog was originally posted on Comverge.com. Itron acquired Comverge on June 1, 2017, and all future demand response blogs will be posted here.……
Time to Get Your Customers Digitally Engaged
This blog was originally posted on Comverge.com. Itron acquired Comverge on June 1, 2017, and all future demand response blogs will be posted here.……
Using In-Line Transformation in the Report Object
I’m developing a forecast that requires base, high, and low scenarios. After building the base scenario, the high and low scenarios are…
AWWA Anaheim: Itron Highlights from the Conference & Exposition
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) Annual Conference & Exposition recently took place in sunny California. Approximately 11,500 water…
Lessons Learned from Itron’s 13th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting
I just returned from Itron’s 13th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting & Training, which took place in Baltimore on May 6 and 7, 2015. A total of…
Itron Discusses the Internet of Things in Incisor Magazine
Incisor IoT Article Incisor Magazine recently published an article by Itron’s Roberto Aiello about the Internet of Things (IoT) and moving from…
Comparison of Peak Forecasting Methods Brown Bag Seminar Recap
On Tuesday, March 24, we held our first brown bag seminar of the year, “Comparison of Peak Forecasting Methods,” which provided an overview of peak…
Free Itron Forecasting Brown Bag Seminars
For more than 10 years, Itron has conducted its popular hour-long internet brown bag seminars on a range of forecasting topics. Itron has always been…
Accelerating the Integration of Variable Generation into the Electric Grid
Recently, I was invited to speak at the Utility Variable Generation Integration Group (UVIG) Conference, which was focused on improving the…
Envision Charlotte: Building a Smart City Through Collaboration and Innovation
Itron and Envision Charlotte recently hosted a conversation about the role technology and collaboration play in driving urban modernization and…
Itron Highlights Collaboration with Microsoft on CityNext Initiative
Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona During the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Sharelynn Moore, Itron's vice president of…
Energy Impacts of the Internet of Things
At the Itron Utility Week 2014 Conference, I reported on Itron’s foray into the Internet of Things (IoT) with the new Riva platform. Now that I am…
Itron Celebrates Frost & Sullivan 2014 North American Smart City Company of the Year Award at DistribuTECH 2015
This afternoon at DistribuTECH 2015, Itron celebrated our Frost & Sullivan 2014 North American Smart City Company of the Year Award with an award…
Itron Showcases New 4G LTE Smart Metering Solution at DistribuTECH 2015
As the world becomes increasingly more connected, continual communication and access to data are becoming more important. In response to this need,…
The Age of Resourcefulness. Doing More While Consuming Less.
DistribuTECH 2015 kicked off this morning and during the opening session, we heard from Itron President and CEO Philip Mezey about waste and…
Improving Net Load
Renewable Portfolio Standard requirements and decreasing costs of photovoltaics (PV) are resulting in significant amounts of solar PV systems being…
An Open Dialogue: The Benefits of Two-Way Communication in Demand Response Programs
This blog was originally posted on Comverge.com. Itron acquired Comverge on June 1, 2017, and all future demand response blogs will be posted here.……
Heat Pumps: Gaining Ground in Colder Climates
Air source heat pumps were once predominately found in the warmer southern regions of the U.S. where temperatures infrequently drop below freezing.…
Technologies You Can Rely On: The Importance of a Pay-for-Performance Approach to Demand Response
This blog was originally posted on Comverge.com. Itron acquired Comverge on June 1, 2017, and all future demand response blogs will be posted here.……
Holiday Savings
With Christmas rapidly approaching and neighborhoods throughout North America intricately decorated with a variety of Christmas lights, I can’t help…
The Fundamentals of Sales and Demand Forecasting Workshop, October 2014
Last month we held our Fundamentals of Sales and Demand Forecasting workshop in Boston. It was a great turn out with 15 forecasters from across the…
The Power of Prices
It’s 3 p.m. on a warm summer San Diego afternoon. My south facing windows are hot to the touch, but the building air conditioning units efficiently…
Internet of Things (IoT), the Cloud, Edge Analytics…
As my eyes wandered through the Knowledge Center at this year’s recent Itron Utility Week (IUW), I was captivated by the future. Stretching…
European Utility Week 2014 Talks Smart Cities
Exhibitions and sessions at the upcoming European Utility Week will highlight new demands for a sustainable future and offer the biggest smart…
Seattle Business Magazine Recognizes Itron at the 2014 Community Impact Awards
Seattle Business magazine honored Itron among the region’s most influential community leaders on October 22, 2014, at the inaugural Community Impact…
The 2015 Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting is moving East!
After 12 years on the West Coast, the Annual Energy Forecasting/EFG Meeting and Training is moving east! The 13th Annual Meeting will be in…
Smart City Innovation at Envision Charlotte
Live streaming from San Antonio this afternoon, Amy Aussieker, executive director of Envision Charlotte, discussed how the Envision Charlotte smart…
Real World Experiences with Home Area Network Applications
In our ever-connected world, customers are demanding more technology and information to give them understanding and control of their energy usage. In…
IUW Knowledge Center – Gas Telemetry
In the Knowledge Center, Kevin Alishouse discussed Itron’s Gas Telemetry product portfolio. At this year’s conference we’re showing two commercially…
Technology Watch – The Latest and Greatest Smart Grid Trends
Technology innovation is occurring at an exponential rate and new technologies promise huge benefits for utilities’ business operations. This…
IUW Knowledge Center – Itron Analytics for Water and Gas
The Itron Analytics solution encompasses products and services designed to turn data into faster, more informed and increasingly automated…
How Energy, Water and the Smart Grid Lead to Smart Cities
More of the world’s population lives in urban areas than ever before. As city populations grow, the demand for services increases and officials are…
IUW Knowledge Center – Smart Cities
Becca Jones and Roberto Aiello from Itron walked us through how Itron technology is helping to shape the smart cities of the future. Itron enables…
IUW Knowledge Center – Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
As part of IUW, Itron experts and partners are exhibiting multiple technologies at the Knowledge Center. We spoke with John Knuth regarding Itron’s…
Utilizing the Itron Cloud for Managed Services
Itron Utility Week’s Knowledge Conference is in full swing, and during one of our morning sessions, we heard from Rusty Cunningham, meter services…
Itron Expands Riva Solution with Smart Load Control
Itron Utility Week’s Knowledge Conference kicked off this morning with an exciting announcement. Today, we launched a new Itron solution – Smart Load…
Meet the Next Era of the Smart Grid: Unlocking Consumer Engagement
Today's guest blog post is from Dean Schiller, CEO CEIVA Energy We’re entering a new era of the smart grid. Itron has spent years working with…
Register to Watch Itron Utility Week Live
Not able to attend Itron Utility Week in person? Greentech Media is streaming Monday and Tuesday's general sessions as well as two key breakout…
Itron Brings Edge Intelligence to Internet of Things World Forum
Itron Riva’s edge intelligence enables easy integration of third-party devices and real-time decision-making capabilities while…
The First MetrixND Newsletter
I stumbled across the first MetrixND newsletter today. In July 1998, Regional Economic Research (RER) was preparing users for the MetrixND 1.2…
Russ Vanos Featured in Meeting of the Minds- The Annual
Itron's Russ Vanos is a featured author in the most recent addition of The Annual, a Meeting of the Minds publication highlighting key blog posts…
Are Utility Sales Trending Up?
Just the other day, I saw a news article that raised the question of whether utilities' sales are trending up. Considering the reports from EIA and…
Ex-Im Bank drives growth in Africa and America
Today Itron President and CEO Philip Mezey provided a guest blog post to The Hill Newspaper. In his post, Mezey shares ways the Ex-Im Bank and…
Leveraging Advanced Metering Infrastructure to Improve Outage Response
Getting a handle on overall grid reliability and outage trends for the entire U.S. is challenging. Despite generally high reliability numbers, power…
Itron Selects Microsoft Azure as Preferred Cloud Platform
Itron recently announced that it intends to use Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform for Itron Analytics. The cloud computing and…
ERCOT Forecasting Planning Analyst Job Opening
One of our forecasting clients, ERCOT, is looking for a forecasting planning analyst. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) manages the…
Smart Grid Technology Applied to Industrial IoT
Over the past few years there has been increased interest in using technologies currently deployed in smart grids for Internet of Things (IoT)…
Using the Right Weather Data
I recently reviewed a customer’s monthly weather normalization model. The regression model included cooling degree days (CDD), heating degree days…
Taking a Holistic Approach to Non-Revenue Water
Every day, between 10 and 30 percent of water pumped is lost or unaccounted for. Known as non-revenue water (NRW), this lost water costs utilities a…
Hybrid and Electric Cars: Implications for Electricity Usage
As of 2013, all electric vehicles are considerably more expensive than hybrid-electric vehicles, not to mention gasoline-powered cars. However, the…
Connecting the Unconnected—Leveraging Technology to Improve the Way Cities are Designed, Built and Run
Achieving greater sustainability – in the economic, social and environmental realms– is possible when we connect people, process, data and things in…
Itron Leads Industry in Energy Forecasting
Meeting Highlights Issues and Solutions for ISOs and RTOs At the start of May, over 20 representatives from 11 different U.S. and Canadian…
Future Focus—Extending Value in the Gas Industry
Gas utilities around the world face a complex mix of new challenges. The emergence of new gas sources, rising customer expectations for information…
How could cities better connect all their residents to economic opportunity?
How do cities create greater opportunity for their residents? In two words, innovation and collaboration. With the world’s population reaching 8…
Managing Energy and Water Resources to Shape Cities of the Future
In a trend of ever-expanding urban centers, more than half of the world’s population now lives in towns and cities for the first time in history. As…
The Buzz about Solar Forecasting
Installed solar generation capacity is growing worldwide and this movement’s effect on load forecasts is significant. Energy service providers and…
12th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting Approaches
Next week Itron hosts the 12th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. On April 2-3, 2014, over 50 forecasters from…
Free Itron Forecasting Brown Bag Seminars
Itron is proud to continue hosting the popular hour-long internet seminars covering a range of forecasting topics. Itron is always at the forefront…
Tips & Tricks: Creating an Index in MetrixND
Comparing multiple economic drivers in MetrixND can be difficult when the data series are developed in different units. Employment, reported in…
The Solar Lease Deal
Working in the energy industry puts a big target on your chest when it comes to solar leasing deals. In the span of weeks, I have had several friends…
Welcome
Welcome to Itron’s Forecasting Blog dedicated to energy forecasting related discussions and ideas. For over 30 years, Itron has worked with electric…
Save the Date for Itron Utility Week 2014
Itron Utility Week is Itron’s annual customer event where gas, water and electric utility customers meet to discuss emerging trends and share best…
IUW Closes Strong, Attendees Mix It Up, Next Year Texas-Bound
Itron Utility Week closed with great fanfare. Attendees exited the last sessions of the day and flooded into the nearby convention hall to watch a…
Cathodic Protection, Customer Portal Added to Itron Analytics Suite
Two new ways to utilize AMI networks and data to extract more value out of existing assets. To complement Itron’s new 100T-CP Cathodic Protection…
IUW Thinks Big: Building a “Green Highway”, Microgrids and Big Brother
Big Brother, Hackers and the Smart Grid Smart grid, AMI and interval data has caused, according to Tim Wolf, Itron’s director of marketing for smart…
Keynotes: Ford’s 30 Million Electric Miles; Hogshead Fascinates, Stirs Crowd
Mike Tinskey, director, global vehicle electrification and infrastructure, talked electric vehicles this morning. Here’s the gist of his keynote:…
Monday’s Moonlight Beach Bash Lights Way for Tuesday’s Events
The beach bash was a blast. The band rocked. Costumes abounded. Dance moves gave way to late-night laughs. On Deck for Tuesday A number of…
IUW Keynote Dr. Webber on Energy-Water Nexus, Resourcefulness and You
Ahead of his keynote address, we met with the Itron Utility Week keynote speaker, Dr. Michael Evan Webber, to dive a little deeper into how the…
Break! The IUW Knowledge Center Gathers People to Connect, Converse, Collaborate
The whole Itron portfolio. The dedicated people who helped create it. The customers who use it at work to manage energy and water. All in one……
General Session Opens with Itron CEO Philip Mezey on Be Resourceful: Being Smart with What We Have
The general session opened with addresses from Philip Mezey, Itron’s president and CEO, and Sharelynn Moore, vice president, corporate marketing and…
Smart Charging as Collaborative Energy Exchange Lowers Barriers, Gives Control to Consumers
Our Nissan Leaf is an exciting addition to the Knowledge Center. One can’t help but hop in and see what the future of transportation holds. “Cool”…
IUW Hits Orlando: Newcomers Meet IUW Advisory Board, Itron
As the more than 1,000 attendees flooded into the Hyatt Regency (formerly Peabody) Orlando on Sunday, Itron Utility Week started to take shape.…
Knowledge Center Opens with Air Abuzz
The Itron Utility Week Knowledge Center opened this afternoon to the familiar sound of fun and laughter. As we write, customers are getting their…
IUW Monday Preview: Dr. Webber on Energy-Water Nexus, Exclusive Media Briefing, Utility Presentations, Beach Bash
KEYNOTE Itron Utility Week opens tomorrow with an exciting keynote from Dr. Michael Even Webber, of the Webber Energy Group. A regular contributor…
Tune in Tomorrow: Live IUW Media Briefing with Itron Executives, Customers and Partners
Join us for an exclusive media briefing. In the streaming broadcast, Itron executives will unveil the latest company news and developments.…
Itron Utility Week, Created for and Sustained by Utility Industry Leaders, Kicks off Sunday with Focus on Being Resourceful
Itron Utility Week brings together nearly 1,000 industry experts from some of the largest utility companies in the U.S. to talk about trends…
You Still Have Time to Register for Itron Utility Week
Registration Is Open You still have time to learn from and collaborate with Itron employees, partners and industry leaders to drive better…
Utility Industry Leaders Bob Sitkauskas and Brad Long Join Itron Utility Week Board of Directors
The Itron Utility Week board of directors recently gained two new members: Bob Sitkauskas, manager of AMI for DTE Energy’s Major Enterprise Project…