Duquesne Light Company Builds Foundation for Grid Edge Intelligence with Itron
Key Highlights
- ➤20,000 Itron DI-enabled endpoints deployed to improve outage detection and response
- ➤Duquesne Light expands Itron collaboration for next-generation AMI and Grid Edge Intelligence
- ➤OpenWay Forward extends existing AMI 1.0 investments toward AMI 2.0 grid orchestration
- ➤DLC serves more than 600,000 customers in the Pittsburgh region
Expert Statements
Mitch Davda, Director of meter operations at Duquesne Light Company
“At Duquesne Light Company, we are focused on investing in technologies that improve reliability, strengthen grid resilience and deliver value for our customers today while preparing our system for future energy needs.”
Mitch Davda, Director of meter operations at Duquesne Light Company
“By building on our longstanding partnership with Itron, we can now enhance visibility across the grid, improve outage response and unlock new capabilities to build a more intelligent and adaptive electric system in a practical, affordable way.”
John Marcolini, Senior vice president of Networked Solutions at Itron
“OpenWay Forward is not simply a migration project. It is a supported operational transition designed to help utilities modernize while protecting existing investments and minimizing disruption.”
John Marcolini, Senior vice president of Networked Solutions at Itron
“As utilities evaluate how to evolve their existing AMI systems to support more advanced use cases, Duquesne Light Company is taking a path to Grid Edge Intelligence that makes the most of prior investments, accelerates time to value and enables modernization at a pace that aligns with their business objectives.”
* Builds on Duquesne Light Company's existing AMI 1.0 investments and smart streetlight network * Deploys 20,000 Itron distributed intelligence-enabled endpoints to improve fault detection * Enhances grid visibility, operational intelligence and real-time decision-making capabilities LIBERTY LAKE, Wash., Oct. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), the intelligent infrastructure provider for modern energy and water management, is expanding its collaboration with Duquesne Light Company (DLC) to support the Pennsylvania utility’s transition to next-generation Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) with Itron’s Grid Edge Intelligence (GEI).
DLC, which serves more than 600,000 customers in the Pittsburgh region, currently operates Itron’s OpenWay(®) smart meter network and is building on that foundation with Itron’s OpenWay Forward, a phased modernization approach that enables utilities to evolve from AMI 1.0 meter-to-cash automation to AMI 2.0 grid orchestration. With this transition, DLC will have greater visibility across the grid, improved reliability and be able to make more informed operational decisions.
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