More Industrial and Commercial Businesses Viewed as Strong Candidates for DG

摘要

A growing number of businesses appear ready to adopt distributed energy to address their concerns about power reliability and energy-price volatility, according to energy market intelligence company Pri-men. Primen's study, "Distributed Energy at the Tipping Point: Customers' Growing Receptivity to Grid-Alternative DE," found that more than 10 percent of U.S. and Canadian businesses in five key business sectors surveyed identified themselves as strong candidates for baseload distributed energy applications during the next two years. And almost half of them said they are already actively evaluating distributed energy options, including natural gas reciprocating engines, microturbines, and fuel cells.