Electric power systems research on dispersed generation

摘要

Historically, distributed (or dispersed) generation (DG) has been of modest significance and the issues related to the technical and commercial integration of this generation in the power system operation and development have received little attention. Over the last several years this has been rapidly changing due to a number of economic, technical, commercial and environmental factors surrounding the electricity industry. These include introduction of competition in the industry, advances in developments of small-scale generation technologies, availability of access to sites and fuel, aging infrastructure, etc.