What are we referring to with the phrase "distributed generation?" ...any electric power generation technology installed close to or on the site of an end user - not the conventional central power station at the center of an extended distribution network. Distributed generation equipment is usually small in scale (less than 500 kW) and typically connected directly to an end user's facility or system of facilties. Technologies deployed currently include fossil fuel fired combustion turbines and reciprocating engines, photovoltaics, wind turbine farms, and fuel cells.
What a customer often gets is a combined, local source of heat and power that can meet local electrical demand, yet condition domestic hot water and provide the capacity for heating and cooling a building from generation exhaust.
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