Distributed Generation: A Solution to Conventional Grid Limitations and Energy Crisis
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Increasing concern towards the energy crisis due to the depletion of fossil fuels and environmental issues like global warming has ignited a revolutionary change in the conventional power system in terms of production and outage. The conventional grid is characterized by unidirectional power flow that constitutes bulk power generation followed by transmission and distribution. The conventional power system experiences the following drawbacks stated below. The inability of conventional grid to accommodate the renewable energy sources due to unidirectional power flow and the instability problems due to variable power generation led to the concept of distributed generation with non-conventional energy sources. The penetration of renewable energy resources like solar energy, wind energy, bio-gas etc. and other non-conventional micro sources like diesel engines, microturbines modified the demography of the power system network in the distributed generation.
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