• blog surf
With COP26 concluded, many sovereign governments are furthering plans to cut their carbon emissions to net zero by 2030. Pledges include a phase-out of coal, and incentivizing the development and building of renewable generation. But to successfully battle climate change, the world must also address another aspect of the issue: barriers that currently prevent smaller power generation and storage technologies from competing effectively against conventional hydrocarbon sources. The technologies, known as distributed energy resources, enhance or provide alternatives to traditional electric power systems.
They lower consumer costs, improve grid flexibility and resilience and, most importantly, add innovation in a country's electricity sector. Distributed energy resources generate or store less than 10,000 kilowatts. They are located on electric utility distribution systems and subsystems, and on large electricity customer systems. Intermittent and distributed generation, demand response programs, energy efficiency projects are forms of distributed energy. - blog.adb.org/blogs
A version of this article appears in the print on July 29, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.