Unraveling the mystery of grid interconnection: small-scale distributed generation projects have unique requirements.

Although the easing of the power crisis in California and other changing marketplace dynamics have dissipated some of the hype surrounding distributed generation (DG), a growing number of energy users can reap the benefits of this point-of-use power approach to significantly cut costs and gain much greater reliability. For many facilities, the question of how to a make a DG/on-site power system project feasible begins with an understanding of one key issue: utility grid interconnection.

Utility interconnection for grid-paralleled DG is one of the most critical, yet often most poorly understood, elements of a successful DG project. Utilities' requirements for ...