What Is the Cost-Benefit of Distributed Generation in Canada?

Rapid growth in the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is one of the most significant and important trends in the electricity industry around the world. Distributed Generation (DG) is a major and well understood DER option and refers to technologies that produce electricity at or near the final consumers of electricity.It may serve a single facility (e.g., house, commercial building, college campus), part of the microgrid, or feed electricity to the distribution network.CERI has produced a study that provides an in-depth cost-benefit analysis of DG in Canada.It separates the economic analysis from the private and public perspectives:

• Are these investments cost-effective for an investor and project proponent?
• What does the deployment of DG mean in terms of costs and benefits to the electricity grid?
• What system costs might be avoided? How might these costs or benefits be allocated to the project proponent or all electricity customers?
• How do rate structures affect the business case for investment?

Join Allan Fogwill, President & CEO of CERI, as he presents the findings of the CERI study on the Cost- Benefits of Distributed Generation in Canada.

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