An even better way to get round bottlenecks is to expand distributed generation, or micropower .
Perhaps most significantly, right now, the business case for distributed generation is hampered.
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Distributed generation requires use of the evolving smart grid, which will continue to offer opportunities to technology companies, he said.
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The leaps and bounds in clean, distributed generation have reduced costs, raised efficiency and demonstrated increasingly high levels of reliability.
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The company partners with leading global companies in the transportation, oil and gas, aerospace, defence, distributed generation and portable power markets.
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Then there's a small-technology approach: solar power, wind energy and distributed generation.
James Woolsey said in Chicago Thursday night, and America needs distributed generation as backup primarily in the form of natural-gas cogeneration and solar power.
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CHP, also known as cogeneration, is a specific genre of distributed generation, which is sited at or near the point of consumption.
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Those systems are designed to protect utility workers when they're fixing supposedly dead lines, but will vastly complicate the job of achieving distributed generation.
Advantages include energy security, price stability, less demand (because less energy is lost in transmission), and fewer emissions because most distributed generation is renewable energy.
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Instead, with distributed generation, individuals or businesses generate their own power on their property and use it themselves or sell it back to the grid.
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The FERC quote mentioned above is from a 2007 study called The Potential Benefits Of Distributed Generation And Rate-Related Issues That May Impede Their Expansion.
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The steady development of the utility market and the quickly growing distributed generation segment will likely catapult China to become the largest solar market in 2013.
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Distributed generation ( DG) generally refers to renewable energy systems of less than 20 megawatts (MW), often rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays, installed close to load and existing transmission.
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Given that Harris has made a career of focusing on the big picture, I was a bit surprised to find that he is a strong advocate of distributed generation.
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Energy Network allows organizations to manage the full spectrum of distributed generation assets as a fleet, which enhances business continuity, reduces enterprise risk and transforms cost centers into profit centers.
First, not only is distributed generation cleaner and more efficient, but to make it work requires elaborate electronic-control systems that will result in the commercialisation of the electronic home and business.
In recent years, this dynamic has become especially problematic as technological advances have accelerated market penetration of customer-sited solar photovoltaics, combined heat and power and other genres of distributed generation.
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The paper notes the success of numerous policies California has implemented to promote distributed generation, including the California Solar Initiative (CSI), net energy metering (NEM), the renewable auction mechanism (RAM), and the Self-Generation Incentive Program.
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He also stressed that the enhanced planning is technology neutral, meaning planners should consider alternatives to building transmission lines, including energy storage technologies and distributed generation, where energy generating devices are placed close to demand.
This form of small-scale distributed generation does not even make the official statistics by bureaus like the Energy Information Administration, yet it is quickly growing in capacity to become a serious part of the mix.
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PowerSecure pioneered the Interactive Distributed Generation IDG power systems platform, which uses sophisticated electricity forecasting software to reduce operating costs through peak shaving, enhances demand response resources and provides a suite of standby power solutions.
So what is distributed generation?
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If other regions pursued similar rule-changes, it would leave an estimated 12 million distributed generation units, with a total capacity of about 200 GW, installed by customers across the country sitting on the sidelines for purposes of demand response, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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This strategy also lends itself to distributed energy generation on local microgrids which can be smartly connected to the existing nation grid.
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The new system is suitable for numerous industry sectors including highway transportation, marine, rail and remote industries such as mining and distributed power generation.
First, distributed energy generation is enabling efficient, decentralized energy production close to the point of use by consumers, integrating energy generation more fully into our homes, offices, and factories.
Global revenues from clean tech businesses--including air and water purification, advanced materials, distributed power generation, renewable energy, and process controls, such as sensors to monitor air and water--now surpass 85 billion pounds, according to the Cleantech Venture Network, a for-profit membership group that connects venture and institutional investors with entrepreneurs.
However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
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