Itron launches GEI feeder reliability solution

Turnkey Solution Delivers SAIDI Improvement Through Enhanced Visibility, Fault Detection and Restoration Capabilities -- GEI Catalyst and turnkey solution is designed to improve reliability, enhance grid visibility and operational performance. -- Solution helps utilities achieve measurable reliability outcomes, improve SAIDI performance, maximize existing infrastructure investments and reduce deployment complexity. -- Built on Itron's Grid Edge Intelligence platform, the solution connects grid-edge, operational and enterprise data to support future AI-enabled utility operations and future grid modernization. LIBERTY LAKE, Wash., Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), the intelligent infrastructure provider for modern energy and water management, has unveiled the next era of its Grid Edge Intelligence (GEI) portfolio with Itron's GEI Catalyst: Feeder Reliability solution. Utilities are under pressure to improve reliability, modernize aging infrastructure, integrate distributed energy resources and prepare for AI-driven operations while keeping customer costs affordable. GEI Catalyst: Feeder Reliability provides utilities with a targeted, lower-risk way to address those priorities by providing a practical path to deliver measurable reliability improvements without costly grid upgrades or lengthy projects to integrate multiple utility systems, data sources and technologies. The solution builds on utilities' existing AMI, operational technology and grid-edge investments, helping them improve reliability without replacing the infrastructure they already have in place. Itron conducted reliability assessments of the GEI Catalyst: Feeder Reliability solution with information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) teams at three North American utilities. The assessments indicated that improving fault location accuracy, fault prevention and outage restoration can reduce the time required to identify, patrol and restore fault-related issue, resulting in reliability improvements ranging from 6 to 12 minutes of SAIDI about 10%. Based on industry-accepted economic impact models, these improvements can translate into an estimated $40 million to $90 million in annual business value for a representative utility serving approximately 1 million customers. The solution also helps utilities improve distribution-system visibility, focus field resources where they are needed most and maximize the value of existing infrastructure investments. These results have been validated through recent customer projects with multiple North American utilities. These engagements demonstrated how utilities can use existing AMI and grid-edge investments to improve fault location accuracy, accelerate restoration efforts and enhance distribution-system visibility without requiring major infrastructure replacement projects. The solution works alongside existing utility systems, including SCADA, Outage Management Systems and Advanced Distribution Ma