Distributed generation has the potential to bring substantial benefits to electric cooperatives and their consumers. In NRECA’s view, regulatory requirements to interconnect distributed generation should not risk degrading electric reliability or safety, or unfairly shift costs to consumers that do not stand to benefit from the addition of these resources.
NRECA maintains a “Distributed Generation Interconnection Toolkit” that provides guidance for developing policies and procedures related to distributed generation.
To learn more about NRECA’s position affecting Distributed Generation, please select the links below.
Documents:
Distributed Generation White Paper
Properly planned and operated DG can provide consumers and society with a wide variety of benefits, including economic savings, improved environmental performance, and greater reliability. The interconnection of DG with the electric grid continues to pose genuine safety and reliability risks and could also pose an economic risk to some electric utilities and their consumers. NRECA in this white paper seeks to provide an objective view of DG's potential.
Type: Whitepaper Date: 2007-08-01 Size: 384KB- Net Metering White Paper
Net metering policies require utilities to pay self-generating consumers retail price for wholesale power. As a result, net metering can raise the cost of power for all of the utility's other consumers. Therefore, NRECA supports policies that encourage renewable energy without shift costs between consumers.
Type: Whitepaper Date: 2007-07-05 Size: 86KB - Importance of Stand-by Rates
Why We Need Stand-by Rates for On-Site Generation by Jay Morrison, Senior Regulatory Counsel
Type: Report Date: 2007-04-05 Size: 1917KB 
Distributed Generation Study Comments
Comments of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association filed at the Department of Energy on
The Potential Benefits of Distributed Generation and Rate Related Issues that May Impede Their Expansion: A Study Pursuant to Section 1817 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005
Type: Date: 2007-04-04 Size: 69KB- CRN's Distributed Generation Portfolio
A list of related resources available to Cooperative Research Network members.
Type: Date: 2006-11-03 Size: 21KB - Contact List
Cooperative contacts on DG related issues.
Type: Date: 2006-05-16 Size: 21KB - NRECA Cautions that Benefits of DG Are Extremely Situation Specific
NRECA filed comments with DOE in response to DOE's Notice of Inquiry and Request for Public Comment on the Study of the Potential Benefits of Distributed Generation.
Type: Date: 2006-02-24 Size: 50KB