Tag: feed-in tariffs

Distributed generation (DG) is one important realization of the Smart Grid to improve grid reliability and add jobs to local economies.  At residential, microgrid or utility-scale levels, DG increases options for powering the distribution grid in the event of centralized generation or transmission failures.  Last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) clarified an earlier [...]

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The NARUC (National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners) Summer Committee Meetings last week revealed a few sobering projections about our future electrical supply.  First, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) anticipates that the cost of electricity will increase by 50% by 2030 even with use of all possible energy sources from fossil fuels to renewables.  [...]

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Way back in time, we had a decentralized and distributed electricity grid.  Power plants were co-located with users, and transmission was limited to relatively small geographic areas.  Over time and for a number of reasons, as the number of electricity users grew, the grid became more centralized.  And now?  There’s a trend to distributed generation, [...]

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