Itron has been selected by Gaz reseau Distribution France (GrDF), a natural gas utility in France, to supply Gazpar smart gas meters for its Smart Gas Meter project.
The project will create smart metering excellence in France to benefit GrDF customers, improve operational efficiency and create jobs, Itron said.
Under this contract Itron will supply up to 3.7 million smart gas meters with integrated radios between 2016 and 2022. It will benefit 11 million GrDF residential and business customers, the company said.
The smart metering solution will provide customers with day-to-day consumption information and monthly invoicing of actual consumption instead of estimated reads. Consumers will be able to improve energy management with more frequent access to their usage information.
“Itron is honored to be a part of such a significant smart metering project in France. As the largest smart gas deployment in the world, this project will be an example of excellence in smart metering and a model for future smart gas metering deployments around the world,” said Marcel Regnier, president of Itron’s global gas business unit.
To help utilities electric, gas and water utilities manage all aspects of a utility’s data collection system and operations, Itron has also launched Itron TOTAL managed services solution in North America.