25-01-2012, 03:43 PM
OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
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INTRODUCTION
Thomas Edison was a man of great foresight. When he set up his first “heat and electricity plant” near Wall Street in 1882, he imagined a world of micro power. Edison thought the best way to meet customers' needs would be with networks of decentralized power plants in or near homes and offices. After a century with power stations getting bigger and transmission grids needed to transmit wider, the idea of local generation for local consumption is back.
What is Distributed Generation?
Distributed generation is an approach that employs small scale technologies to produce electricity close to the end users of power. DG technologies often consist of modular (and sometimes renewable-energy) generators, and they offer a number of potential benefits. In many cases, distributed generators can provide lower cost electricity and higher power reliability and security with fewer environmental consequences than can traditional power generators.
DG-GRID
The DG-GRID is aiming at a better deployment of distributed generation (renewable, CHP and other small generation) by improving the coordination between distributed generation (DG) and the electricity distribution network.
