Utility grid-connected photovoltaic distributed power systems

Conference · Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:390278

Osborn, D E; Collier, D E ^[1]

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1. Sacramento Municipal Utility District, CA (United States)

The utility grid-connected market has been identified as a key market to be developed to accelerate the commercialization of photovoltaics. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has completed the first three years of a continuing commercialization effort based on the sustained, orderly development of the grid-connected, utility PV market. This program is aimed at developing the experience needed to successfully integrate PV as distributed generation into the utility system and to stimulate the collaborative processes needed to accelerate the cost-reductions necessary for PV to be cost-effective in these applications by about the year 2000. In the first three years, SMUD has installed over 340 residential and commercial buildings, grid-connected, rooftop, PV Pioneer systems totaling over 1.4MW of capacity of five substation sited, grid-support PV systems totaling 860 kW bringing the SMUD distributed PV power system to nearly 5 MW. SMUD also established a partnership with its customers through the PV Pioneer green pricing program to advance PV commercialization and to develop rooftops as PV power plant distributed generation sites.

• OSTI ID: 390278
• Report Number(s): CONF-960430-; ISBN 0-89553-168-2; TRN: IM9646%%564
• Resource Relation: Conference: 25. American Solar Energy Society conference, Asheville, NC (United States), 13-18 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Solar `96 -- The 1996 American Solar Energy Society annual conference: Proceedings; Campbell-Howe, R.; Wilkins-Crowder, B. [eds.]; PB: 443 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
14 SOLAR ENERGY
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DISPERSED STORAGE AND GENERATION
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SUPPLIES
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
CAPACITY
LOAD MANAGEMENT
PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS
PUBLIC OPINION
POWER SUBSTATIONS
LIFE-CYCLE COST