Itron
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 topic is an important one, "Exploring AI for Utilities; The Promise and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence."
The report examined 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. The findings on the impact of the promise and the challenges of artificial intelligence were explored in the January and March issues of this year's Public Utilities Fortnightly.
In this third and last look at Itron's timely report, Marina Donovan, Itron VP Global Marketing, ESG and Public Affairs discussed the barriers to AI adoption by utilities. There is much to learn here about the latest on AI and machine learning.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: Regarding Itron's Resourcefulness Insight Report, we're going to talk about barriers to AI adoption by utilities. What are those barriers?