Sustained orderly development applied to the commercialization of utility grid-connected photovoltaics
- 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 two 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 the year 2000. In these first two years, SMUD has installed over 240 residential and commercial building, grid-connected, rooftop, ``PV Pioneer`` systems totaling over 1 MW of capacity and four substation sited, grid-support PV systems totaling over 530 kW bringing the SMUD distributed PV power system to over 3.6 MW. SMUD also established a partnership with its customers through the PV Pioneer green pricing program to advance PV commercialization.
- OSTI ID:
- 109858
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950725--; ISBN 0-89553-167-4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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