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Today's electric power system—now many decades old—was not designed for the type of two-way power flow needed to support high penetrations of interconnected distributed energy resources. Complicating matters, the regulations that govern these systems were developed around a central-station generation model in which all such assets were owned by monopoly providers. The market adoption of distributed energy technologies will require regulators to consider many significant changes in these assumptions.
NREL's distributed energy regulatory and institutional issues activities identify and address barriers to the interconnection of distributed energy resources.
Recent Publications
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- The Regulatory Assistance Project. "Technical Status Report of the Regulatory Assistance Project: October 2001-February 2003" (PDF 966 KB). NREL/SR-560-33167. Golden, Colorado: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. August 2003.
- Bluestein, J.; Horgan, S.; Eldridge M.M. "Impact of Air Quality Regulations on Distributed Generation" (PDF 2.3 MB). NREL/SR-200-31772. Golden, Colorado: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. October 2002.
- The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. "Model Distributed Generation Interconnection Procedures and Agreement" (PDF 304 KB). Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Distributed Energy Resources through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. July 2002.
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