FERC Says Small Power Producers Are Important Too

Economies of scale used to mandate that power generation—whether renewable or traditional—was the sole domain of enormous facilities. Now, with much more efficient renewable technologies and favorable laws and regulations, renewable power generation is moving to small plots of land and even roofs of commercial buildings. The difficulty remains in getting these small generation facilities hooked into the wider grid. Luckily FERC has promulgated orders that encourage this kind of small generator interconnection.

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