An Overview of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnection: Current Practices and Emerging Solutions

Technical Report · Thu Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1508510· OSTI ID:1508510

Horowitz, Kelsey A ^[1]; Peterson, Zachary ^[1]; Coddington, Michael H ^[1]; Ding, Fei ^[1]; Sigrin, Benjamin O ^[1]; Saleem, Danish ^[1]; Baldwin, Sara E ^[2]; Lydic, Brian ^[2]; Stanfield, Sky C ^[2]; Enbar, Nadav ^[3]; Coley, Steven ^[3]; Sundararajan, Aditya ^[4]; Schroeder, Chris ^[5]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC), Latham, NY (United States)
3. Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Pal Alto, CA (United States)
4. Florida International Univ., Miami, FL (United States)
5. Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA), Washington DC (United States)

This guidebook provides an overview of key issues for utilities and utility regulators to consider as deployments of distributed energy resources (DER) increase, including what has been tried in the field and emerging good practices. Topics covered include: Interconnection Applications and Application Processing; Interconnection Standards; Advanced Inverters; Impact Screening and Evaluation; Estimating Future DER deployments; Distribution System Upgrades and Planning in a DER context; Cybersecurity; Storage and Solar plus Storage Interconnection; and Cost Allocation.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1508510
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-6A20-72102
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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