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Itron and Toumetis Team Up with Southern California Utility to Reduce Wildfire Risk and Improve Reliability by Preventing Outages and Shortening Restoration Time
Collaboration Advances Wildfire Mitigation with Predictive Analytics, Faster Fault Location and AcceLIBERTY LAKE, Wash. and BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Itron and Toumetis today announced a project in Southern California to strengthen wildfire mitigation and improve electric reliability by deploying advanced, real-time analytics that help reduce SAIFI (System Average Interruption Frequency Index) and SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) through two complementary
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