Going to open source was a big step for Itron of Liberty Lake, Wash.
And in January, Itron competed for and won its own Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit.
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Book says companies like solar technology maker SunPower and Itron, which makes "smart" electric meters, could feel the squeeze.
Today, he and his wife Angela both work at Itron, helping to forge a clean-energy future for their three daughters.
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Going to open source was a big step for Itron (nasdaq: ITRI - news - people ) of Liberty Lake, Wash.
That day will come, insists LeRoy Nosbaum, former head of Itron.
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But when Ed Barrie became Itron's treasurer two years ago, the treasury department was hedging against only those risks incurred by the parent company, based in Liberty Lake, Wash.
Itron (ITRI) has the leading market share in the global smart metering industry, and Echelon (ELON) provides network solutions and interfaces for street lighting, residential appliances and facility monitoring.
Top holdings include: Valmont Industries ( VMI), Nalco Holdings ( NLC), Tetra Tech ( TTEK), URS Corp. ( URS), Danaher ( DHR), Itron ( ITRI), and Lindsay Corp ( LNN).
Itron, a Washington state firm and established industry player that sells advanced meters to utility companies, has seen its stock rise 58% within the last year and as first-half profits rose 37% from 2006 to 2007.
Goldman also reduced its price targets for a wide range of alternative energy stocks, including not just First Solar but also MEMC Electronic Materials, SunPower, STR, EnerSys, Itron, Amyris, KiOr and Solazyme.
Itron (nasdaq: ITRI - news - people ), a Washington state firm and established industry player that sells advanced meters to utility companies, has seen its stock rise 58% within the last year and as first-half profits rose 37% from 2006 to 2007.
The change came as Itron's research group in Paris realized it could exploit inexpensive new wireless chips and open-source software to create a so-called mesh network of electric meters that passed information among themselves, like firemen in a bucket brigade, instead of relying on expensive and less reliable individual connections to the Internet.
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