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Post date: May 24, 17
The impressive nationwide growth in the adoption of renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) provides technical challenges for utilities long accustomed to pushing power out from remote locations toward load centers in urban areas. When adoption was low, grid operators could largely ignore the existence of distributed renewables. Now, they need to understand the magnitude of the intermittent generation from solar and wind installations and develop approaches to seamlessly integrate that generation into grid operations.
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