Distributed Energy Regulatory and Institutional Issues
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.
