Distributed generation is not a new concept. The first power plants, including Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street Power station, were essentially distributed generation and constructed to serve a local area ...

WASHINGTON ― Net metering practices should be revised to reflect the value that distributed electricity generation ― for example, electricity generated by rooftop solar panels ― can provide to society ...

Utilities face the greatest risk of lost revenues from distributed generation (DG), including residential solar photovoltaics and fuel cells, according to Accenture’s Digitally Enabled Grid research, ...

On the heels of the announcement of a $60-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for upgrades to and coordination of the country's three major interconnection transmission networks ...

As the global energy landscape rapidly transforms, the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as photovoltaic (PV) systems, energy storage ...

Regulators in California last week initiated rulemaking to push the state’s three investor-owned utilities to incorporate distributed energy resources (DERs) into the planning and operation of their ...

Continued improvement in the cost and efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) technology hints at a future in which utilities will need to accommodate high levels of variable distributed generation (DG) on ...

Vol. 15, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: ENER: A selection of papers from the ENER Forum 5 “Technological change, market reform and climate policies” Bucharest, Romania, October 2003 (2004), pp. 323-332 (10 ...

Distributed generation offers not only the possibility of increased efficiency and improved reliability in the electricity sector, but potentially changes the traditional practice in planning and ...

The power sector has increasingly turned to various forms of distributed generation to meet growing power demands over the past several decades. Although solar PV and other renewable technologies ...