Correspondence

November 13, 2012

Pradip Bhaumik, Special Counsel

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, NE

Washington, D.C. 20549



Re:	Itron, Inc.
	Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2011
	Filed February 17, 2012
	File No. 0-22418

Dear Mr. Bhaumik:

This letter confirms that Itron, Inc. (the “Company”) received the November 1 comment letter (“Comment Letter”) from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Staff”) regarding the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. The Comment Letter requests a response within 10 business days. The Company requires additional time to respond to the Comment Letter; to ensure that our responses reflect the input of all necessary personnel and are therefore complete and accurate, we intend to file the Company’s response by November 30, 2012.

If you have any questions with respect to the foregoing, please contact me at (509) 891-3295.

Sincerely,

/s/ Shannon M. Votava

Shannon M. Votava

Vice President and General Counsel

SMV:mel

ITRON

2111 North Molter Road

Liberty Lake, WA 99019