Abstract
Designing and implementing credit-based pilot programs for distributed resources distribution is a low-cost, low-risk opportunity to find out how these resources can help defer or avoid costly electric power system (utility grid) distribution upgrades. This report describes implementation options for deaveraged distribution credits and distributed resource development zones. Developing workableprograms implementing these policies can dramatically increase the deployment of distributed resources in ways that benefit distributed resource vendors, users, and distribution utilities. This report is one in the State Electricity Regulatory Policy and Distributed Resources series developed under contract to NREL (see Annual Technical Status Report of the Regulatory Assistance Project:September 2000-September 2001, NREL/SR-560-32733). Other titles in this series are: 1) Accommodating Distributed Resources in Wholesale Markets, NREL/SR-560-32497; 2) Distributed Resources and Electric System Reliability, NREL/SR-560-32498; 3) Distribution System Cost Methodologies for Distributed Generation, NREL/SR-560-32500; 4) Distribution System Cost Methodologies for Distributed GenerationAppendices, NREL/SR-560-32501.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Publisher | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) |
| Number of pages | 43 |
| State | Published - 2002 |
Bibliographical note
Work performed by The Regulatory Assistance Project, Gardiner, Maine and Montpelier, VermontNREL Publication Number
- NREL/SR-560-32498
Keywords
- ancillary services
- case studies
- DER
- distributed energy resources (DER)
- distributed power
- electric power system reliability
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- NREL
- public utility commissions
- regulatory policy
- utility grids