Itron tops in Smart Grid ARRA awarded companies

By Greentech Lead America: Zpryme INFOgraphic released
the list of top 20 smart grid ARRA awarded vendors. The list reveals the
companies that made up 12 percent ($1.13B) of the overall $9.6B U.S. funds.
Among the top 20 companies Itron comes first in the list with $304,828,804.

The Zpryme INFOgraphic reveals the top 20 Smart Grid
ARRA awarded companies (in US dollars): 

Itron
$304,828,804

Trilliant Networks Inc. $99,494,396

GE $98,668,171

Honeywell
$60,932,262

Landis+Gyr $56,222,792

Accenture $53,955,271

Cooper Power Systems $48,680,230

Sensus $43,319,354

Elster $42,305,647

IBM $42,261,054

S&C Electric Company $39,431,504

Alcatel Lucent $38,664,493

BSC $32,078,744

A123 Systems $29,923,083

Oracle $28,673,666

Silver Spring Networks Inc. $28,611,707

Beacon Power Corporation $24,063,978

Tantalus $21,059,544

Schweitzer Engineering Labs, Inc. $18,399,024

Ervin Cable Construction, LLC $16,959,700

“The U.S. government realizes they must incentivize
energy conservation and are finally seeing the ARRA funds come into play.
Companies such as GE, Siemens, Itron, Elster, and Honeywell have been shining
examples of delivering Smart Grid technologies that will be the future of U.S.
energy infrastructure investments over the next ten plus years,” said Jason
Rodriguez, CEO, Zpryme.

Smart
grid investment will continue to rise in 2012

With Duke Energy having allocated $1 billion for U.S.
deployment efforts with other utilities such as PG&E, and South California
serving up major multi-million dollar investments, the overall U.S. smart grid
value chain is more than optimistic for long term growth industry segments such
as energy storage, cyber security, network management software, and analytics
will be key growth areas for 2012-13, according to Zpryme.

editor@greentechlead.com