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1 pt	ITRI: Smart Meter Competition for Itron
	May 12, 2008 11:51 AM UTC

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The latest Fortune Magazine has an article titled: Can this man save the grid?

According to the Edison Electric Institute, utilities over the next 20 years will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure improvements, including computers, sensors, and networking systems�.

One of the players best positioned to capitalize on the rollout of the smart grid is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur named Ray Bell. Bell, 52, a veteran of Oracle (ORCL - Annual Report), Cisco (CSCO), and a network services company he started called SmartPipes, has focused on what may be the most profitable component in the new system: the electric meter that sits in your basement and ticks off the watts as you consume them.

I have been an owner of the market leader in smart meters, Itron (ITRI), for some time. I found the article interesting because it uncovers a potential competitor I h

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