Grid Modernization
Materials, Partnerships, and Expertise
Irby delivers the resources needed to guide businesses toward a resilient and reliable grid. With a deep understanding of grid modernization, we help utilities and contractors navigate every project by combining innovation with proven industry strategies to ensure lasting success.
Meeting Today's Grid Challenges
Grid challenges aren’t coming—they’re here. Aging infrastructure, emerging technologies, and increasing grid demand have created a need for better, faster, more accurate data and communications.
The natural next questions for utilities: Where do we begin? How can we develop a reliable grid that is cost-effective and flexible enough to respond to industry shifts? Where do automation, demand response, and renewable energy fit into my utility’s future?
To build a resilient future for your utility, Irby serves as your:
Partner
to navigate upgrades that combine innovation with proven strategies
Integrator
who can help build a complete solution
Supply Chain Management
As demand surges, supply chain challenges swell. With decades of SCM expertise, Irby keeps you ahead of the curve by ensuring a seamless stream of material.
- Strategic Forecasting: Anticipate demand and navigate extended lead times with precision.
- Global Supplier Partnerships: Maintain steady inventory flow through well-managed supplier relationships.
- Agile Solutions: Tap into a vast network of warehouses and creative sourcing strategies to meet your needs.
Project Services
Irby provides value-added services to help you develop and deploy any grid resiliency strategy, offering transitional support every step of the way:
- Pre-construction Meeting Support and Attendance
- Grant Acquisition
- Engineering Liaison and Coordination
- Construction Material Takeoff
- Material Management Services
- Procurement
- Staging
- Precise scheduling
- Kitting and labeling
- Job site trailers
- VMI/VOI
- Staffing and Logistics
- Includes managed material, trailers, and workforce support from veteran-owned business partners.
Grid-Resilient Materials
Irby supplies the underground and overhead materials needed to strengthen your grid. Our extensive manufacturer partnerships ensure you have the right products to enhance reliability, identify outages earlier, isolate problems quicker, and restore service faster—no matter the project’s scope or complexity.
Renewable Energy
Solar and wind projects are reshaping traditional energy generation. Irby provides logistics and distribution support as utilities and contractors navigate these transitions. Our project services team helps you identify the best investments for your community with full-scale support.
Advanced Communications Systems
AMI
Efficient load management, rapid outage detection, remote system control, and accurate billing—Irby provides all you need to create effective, two-way grid communications. Improve your grid transparency and service experience through our Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solutions.
Turnkey Communications
Bringing together system design, on-site material support, full-visibility software, and sustaining services, our turnkey solutions build faster, more reliable networks. We offer the practical guidance and project management expertise needed to build your communication systems right.
