The use of small-scale electricity generators located close to the point of use. This is different from traditional electricity generation, where large power plants are located far away from where the electricity is used, requiring elctricity to be transmitted over high-voltage power lines.
Independent power generation sources that are located throughout a utility's distribution network.
Electric power produced elsewhere than a central station generating unit, such as that using fuel cell technology or on-site small scale generating equipment.
A general term for all or part of the customer's distributed electrical generator(s) or inverter(s) together with all protective, safety, and associated equipment necessary to produce electric power at the customer's facility. The generator itself can be any type of electrical generator or static inverter. A distributed generator is one kind of distributive resource. ( Diagram)
Electricity that is provided by small power generators located at or near end users.
A small-scale power generation technology that provides electric power at a site closer to customers than central station generation. The term is commonly used to indicate non-utility sources of electricity, including facilities for self-generation.
Generation of electricity by small-scale power plants located near the electric loads they serve. The term generally is used to refer to power plants that are small enough to be connected to distribution instead of transmission. Depending on the size of nearby loads and the capacity of the distribution line to which it is connected, the maximum size of distributed generation can vary from a few hundred kW to 5 MW. The smallest DG units commercially available today can produce 30 kW.
Any small scale electric generation that is located at or near the point of end use. It may be owned and operated by a customer, a utility, or a non-utility company.
This term refers to generation of electricity for use or sale that does not utilize the utilities transmission network. Examples would be power generated by biogas digesters on dairies, solar or wind generation, or other generation on your property or "over-the-fence" to a near-by entity. This reduces the demand for power from the Utility grid.
a distributed generation system is characterised by a number of smaller, interlinked generators, rather than one central generator.
Electricity produced on site as either peaking resource or hedge against supply outages and brownouts. Systems range from 3 to 10,00 kilowatts. California has about 2,500 MW of small-scale renewable and non-renewable distributed generation and has added an average of 100 MW of new small-scale DG capacity every year since 2001. DG is a key element of California's loading order strategy and will help meet the state's energy efficiency and renewable energy goals.
Small, modular, decentralized, grid-connected or off-grid energy systems located in or near the place where energy is used.
A system of powering an electric grid, not from a few large central power plants, but from many smaller power systems distributed over a wide area.
A generating facility located near customer loads.
Distributed generation involves the production of electrical power much closer to the end user than conventional power supply does. Distributed generation often requires lower power units.
A distributed generation system involves small amounts of generation located on a utility's distribution system for the purpose of meeting local (substation level) peak loads and/or displacing the need to build additional (or upgrade) local distribution lines.
Electricity generation usually on a relatively small scale that is connected to the distribution networks rather than directly to the national transmission systems.
(Distributed Energy Resources): Refers to electricity provided by small, modular power generators (typically ranging in capacity from a few kilowatts to 50 megawatts) located at or near customer demand.
Electric power produced typically by onsite small scale generation technologies rather than by a central station generating unit.
A popular term for localized or on-site power generation.
Distributed generation is a new trend in the generation of heat and electrical power. The Distributed Energy Resources (DER) concept permits "consumers" who are generating heat or electricity for their own needs (like in hydrogen stations and microgeneration) to send surplus electrical power back into the power grid - a process also known as net metering - or share excess heat via a distributed heating grid. Distributed generation systems with Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can be very efficient, using up to 90% of the potential energy in the fuel they consume.