In the early days of telecom deregulation, it was said that customers learned BYOB (Be Your Own Bell). In today’s energy environment, the acronym could be BYOE — “Be Your Own Edison.” With the ...

Solar projects can generally be placed in two buckets: they are either large utility-scale ground-mounted projects connected to the grid, or they are smaller, distributed projects, typically 20 MW in ...

Distributed generation is not a new concept. The first power plants, including Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street Power station, were essentially distributed generation and constructed to serve a local area ...

Small-scale, “distributed” PV has become a significant part of the world’s biggest solar market but it is now butting up against the same grid constraints that have frustrated utility-scale PV in ...