About Justin Patrick
Justin Patrick, Senior Vice President of Device Solutions at Itron, has spoken at industry events about the company's focus on data granularity and grid management. At the 2024 DTECH conference, Patrick stated that utilities are facing demands for two to five times their current capacity within 10 to 20 years, and argued that "wired solutions" alone cannot meet this need. He described Itron's work on distributed energy resource management, active transformer load management, and voltage management as "behind-the-wire solutions" intended to address these challenges. Patrick also thanked employees for the "reaction that the street had to our Q4 earnings results."
In prior appearances, Patrick discussed Itron's product development. At the 2023 Itron Inspire event, he said that customers are seeking "data and data granularity" to react to network disruptions, and highlighted the company's evolution of its electric metering technology and the launch of the Intellis gas meter in North America, which he said provides "operational and safety protection." At the 2022 DTECH conference, Patrick noted that his group manufactures meters that collect data for utility and municipality customers, and expressed interest in companies developing technologies to reduce demand on grid infrastructure, such as load control switching and smart panel breakers.
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Justin Patrick's recent appearances.
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Hey everybody, it's Justin Patrick. I'm coming to you from Distributech 2024 here in Orlando. Really exciting to see what's been going on. A lot of the conversations here are around all of the things that we're doing to solve our customers' problems, and that's what I love about being here. You think about electrification and what that's doing to the grid. We can't build enough wired solutions to solve the electrification that we need for these utilities. They keep talking about two, three, five times the capacity that they have today in less than 10, 20 years. Well, you can't do that with wired solutions. So whether it's distributed energy resource management, active transformer load and voltage management, everything we're doing for behind-the-meter solutions is helping to solve that problem that they're seeing. I'm also excited to see all of the energy that the folks have. It's 15,000 people or more here now, walking through our booth, seeing all of our folks talking to our customers and to consultants in the industry. I'm also excited about our brand new logo, taking us into a whole new generation and direction. I'm also excited about the reaction that the street had to our Q4 earnings results, and I want to thank all of you for your strong efforts and the way that you helped to get us to that position. So again, a lot of good things happening here, and really excited to be at Distributech. Thanks everybody.
