G. Strbac, "Electric power systems research on dispersed generation", Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 77, No.9, pp.1143-1147, July 2007

Historically, distributed (or dispersed) generation (DG) has been of modest significance and the issues related to the techni- cal and commercial integration of this generation in the power system operation and development have received little attention. Over the last several years this has been rapidly changing due to a number of economic, technical, commercial and environmen- tal factors surrounding the electricity industry. These include introduction of competition in the industry, advances in devel- opments of small-scale generation technologies, availability of access to sites and fuel, aging infrastructure, etc...

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