Distributed generation not only meets specific customer needs, it also supports the economic operation of the transmission and distribution grid. Click here to enlarge image What is distributed ...

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 ...

When it comes to DG assets, it’s not so much what you have, but how you use it. The total is often greater than the sum of its parts, and perhaps no better example exists in today’s electric power ...

[For years asset managers have discussed the need to transition to a “next-generation” distribution model to offset industry-wide margin declines. Many have been slow to adopt more advanced data, ...

Flexible interconnection is one of the most impactful, cost-effective tools for enabling distributed energy resource deployment, said a joint filing by the Solar Energy Industries Association and ...

Most distribution systems (especially rural ones) are set up in a radial configuration (see Fig. 1). This structure allows for simple operation and an economic overcurrent protection system, but it ...

For a majority of the United States' electricity and grid network's 100 plus year history, utilities have largely been unchallenged monopolies because of high barriers to market entry, among other ...

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 ...

Public takeovers of electric utilities may backfire financially, as generation and transmission face growing competition ...

The Nigerian Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved 13 new licenses for six companies for the generation of off-grid and embedded power, distribution as ...