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Perhaps the largest current obstacle to the growth of distributed power is the lack of a solid regulatory framework that incorporates the benefits and opportunities of distributed power into its overall assumptions and objectives. Unfortunately, as technical innovations have made distributed generation more common and more feasible, government and utility regulations have not kept up. This often means that distributed generation owners must endure project delays, tedious interconnection processes, and requirements of redundant systems and efforts because of rules developed by regulators thinking only in terms of vertically integrated monopoly utilities and the central station model.
Many projects are now addressing the regulatory and institutional issues that pose challenges for distributed generation interconnection. To learn about them, pursue the following links:
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