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Marina Donovan is Vice President of Global Marketing, ESG and Public Affairs at Itron.
Itron recently released its "2024 Itron Resourcefulness Insight Report," as part of its decade-long research in understanding the perspectives of utility executives and other stakeholders on issues surrounding how energy and water are delivered and used. The importance of the topic this year is yielded in the title, "Exploring AI for Utilities; The Promise and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence."
The report examines the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning, plus distributed or edge intelligence, among utility executives in six countries: Australia, Canada, France, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Facing increased demands on capacity, which are outpacing abilities of traditional approaches, utilities worldwide are looking to a new generation of technologies for help.
Itron Vice President of Global Marketing, ESG and Public Affairs Marina Donovan discussed how population growth, new construction, EV charging, and huge power demands of data centers are putting historic stresses on electric, gas, and water utilities. She also looked at how utility executives plan to take advantage of AI and ML to meet these challenges head on.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: Itron releases each year a major Resourcefulness Insight Report. Talk about that.