November 7, 2016
Swearingen Engineering Center (Swearingen 1A03)
University of South Carolina
301 S. Main St., Columbia, SC

Technical Challenges of Integration of Distributed Generation

As the power industry moves forward with a focus on clean energy what are the new challenges they face? Distributed generation and storage, in particular, bring many engineering challenges to be solved. Is DG safe? Is customer scale or utility scale solar the answer? How will DG affect an aging infrastructure? What will the protective relaying schemes look like with multi-direction power flow on the distribution system contributed by intermittent energy sources? These are a few of the questions that will be addressed during this technical session. As the power industry landscape changes the utilities must adapt to survive and each utility has their own approach to addressing the issues. We will also take a look at SCE&G’s approach and the progress we have made.

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