
Plug & Play Distributed Energy: How Might It Come About?
Date: Friday, October 10, 2003 @ 00:39:54 UTC Topic: Legal
From EPRIJournalOnLine
In consumer electronics and personal computer technology, “plug & play” is shorthand for easy deployment. In the electricity industry, if the term were applied to distributed energy resources (DER), plug & play might be defined as a grid-connected technology that is easy to obtain, install, and integrate with existing systems and processes, and in which the user has confidence in the functionality and safety of the device...
By this definition, grid-tied DER technologies in most cases today are anything but plug & play. Consumers seeking to deploy grid-tied DER—regardless of whether it is a small residential or a large commercial or industrial system—face a variety of barriers that are often costly and time consuming to overcome....
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