Otter Tail Power Company Selects Itron for Grid Modernization
October 06 2016 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
Midwestern utility to take advantage of Itron
managed services, OpenWay® cellular solution and analytics to
monitor for service interruptions
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), a world-leading technology and
services company dedicated to the resourceful use of energy and
water, announced today that Otter Tail Power Company, an
investor-owned utility that provides electricity to customers in
Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, has signed a contract
with Itron to modernize and improve the reliability of its electric
grid. The utility will take advantage of Itron Total Outcomes, a
complete managed services offering using Itron technology and
analytics to deliver needed outcomes. In Otter Tail Power Company’s
case, the utility needs greater awareness of service interruptions
across its territory to improve reliability.
Otter Tail Power Company continuously works to improve grid
reliability and wants to be as efficient as possible with its
restoration efforts. To help with this, Itron will manage
reliability analytics on behalf of the utility, using information
from Itron’s OpenWay smart grid solution with cellular
communications. Itron will then notify operators when interruptions
occur as well as pinpoint the circuits, phases and number of
customers involved. This will empower the utility to proactively
improve overall reliability, outage response and customer
satisfaction.
Otter Tail Power Company will also perform historic outage
analysis and measure restoration performance. This enables
operators to identify poorly performing feeders and prioritize
budget allocation for infrastructure improvements and
maintenance.
“Otter Tail Power Company was looking to replace our aging
interruption monitoring system with an Automated Metering
Infrastructure (AMI)-based offering that provides both historic and
real-time outage analytics and voltage monitoring capabilities on a
single platform. We found that with Itron, we’ll have the
technology and a team of experts to quickly get the system up and
running and provide results,” said Rod Jensen, P.E., reliability
engineer at Otter Tail Power Company. “With Itron’s help, we will
be able to improve reliability while determining where to place
resources for vegetation management and infrastructure
improvements.”
“Itron Total Outcomes for reliability provides functionality
similar to a SCADA implementation, but at a fraction of startup and
operational costs. The managed services approach frees up Otter
Tail Power Company’s resources to focus on pressing operational
activities rather than implementing and managing IT environments
and AMI systems,” said Bruce Douglas, senior vice president and
general manager of software and services at Itron. “Itron’s
powerful analytics will help Otter Tail Power Company harness the
value of the data generated by Itron’s smart cellular solution so
the utility can operate more efficiently and deliver more reliable
service to its customers.”
About Itron
Itron is a world-leading technology and services company
dedicated to the resourceful use of energy and water. We provide
comprehensive solutions that measure, manage and analyze energy and
water. Our broad product portfolio includes electricity, gas, water
and thermal energy measurement devices and control technology;
communications systems; software; as well as managed and consulting
services. With thousands of employees supporting nearly 8,000
customers in more than 100 countries, Itron applies knowledge and
technology to better manage energy and water resources. Together,
we can create a more resourceful world. Join us: www.itron.com.
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