ABSTRACT
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This chapter is designed to provide a brief overview of the converging trends in the energy industry today — regulatory, economic, and technical — that make distributed generation (DG) such a compelling business case. Due to the pervasive, entrenched position of electric utilities in the United States (and other developed countries), however, this is not always an open playing field. The forces that created the contemporary U.S. electricity system continue to exert a profound influence on our perceptions of what is possible as both energy providers and consumers.
