SMART ELECTRICITY NETWORKS – SMALL GENERATOR ACCESS
April 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is trying to encourage smart power networks that allow small stand-alone electricity generators to contribute supplies to national grids. It has established an expert group - 'European Technology Platform: SmartGrids' - discussing achieving this goal. The problem, said a Commission note, is that existing grids were designed to transfer power long distances from large fossil fuel plants. These do not help smaller-scale local power 'distributed generation' facilities, such as wind turbines or solar panels. "The ...
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