The way the United States manages electricity was transformed more than 40 years ago with legislation that established open access to the transmission level of the electricity grid. Known commonly as ...

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 ...

When distributed generation causes net reverse power flow on a distribution feeder, several voltage-related issues can occur. According to studies published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ...

In the early days of telecom deregulation, it was said that customers learned BYOB (Be Your Own Bell). In today’s energy environment, the acronym could be BYOE — “Be Your Own Edison.” With the ...

In Part 1, we looked at how industrial-scale distributed generating plants (typically hundreds of kilowatts to tens of megawatts), powered by renewable energy, are playing an important role in ...

Distributed generation stands out in the Cuban power system, where there are hundreds of units dispersed throughout the country. In times of contingency, and as usually happens when a hurricane hits ...

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 ...

National Grid has reached a milestone in connecting more than three gigawatts of renewable distributed generation across its network. With 3 GW total of renewable distributed generation now connected ...