Along with its earnings report today which beat expectations, Itron (ITRI) has announced a contract with California’s Glendale Water & Power to provide them with smart metering technology for both its water and electricity operations.  No word on the financials but Glendale serves 120K customers.  Itron’s OpenWay advanced metering system provides a two way communication between the meter and the utility, providing for data collection, use limitations, outage detection, remote metering and home networking … Read the rest