Energy Supply - Projects - DG-GRID

Project results

Final results

• A policy letter with key messages of the DG-GRID project
• The Final Report with a summary of the DG-GRID project results

WP1: Regulatory review and benchmarking

• D1 Regulatory Review and International Comparison of EU-15 Member States
• D2 Assessment and Recommendations Overcoming in Short-Term Grid System Regulatory and other Barriers to Distributed Generation
• D3 WP1 results have been presented and discussed in a Special Session 'Socio-Economic Aspects of Future Electricity Networks'
  The Future Power System 2005 Conference, November 16-18, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands (see also www.fps2005.org).

WP2: Innovative network concepts

• D4 Review of Innovative Network Concepts
• D5 Regulating Innovation & Innovating Regulation
• D6 WP2 results have been presented and discussed at a joined DG-GRID and ELEP Workshop 2 - 'Integration of Distributed Generation into Electricity Networks' on March 8, 2006 in Berlin, Germany.

WP3: DG costs and benefit analaysis

• D7 Method for Monetarisation of Cost and Benefits of DG Options
• D8 Costs and Benefits of DG Connections to Grid System
• D9 The evolving role of the DSO in efficiently accommodating distributed generation
• D10 Business models for DSOs under alternative regulatory regimes
• D11 WP3 results have been presented and discussed at the DG-GRID mid-term seminar 'Distributed Generation and Improved Electricity Network Regulation' in The Hague on November 15, 2006.

WP4: Development of regulatory guidelines

• D12-13 Guidelines for improvement on the short term of electricity distribution network regulation for enhancing the share of DG
• D14 WP4 results have been presented and discussed at the DG-GRID workshop 'Recommendations and Guidelines for an Improved Regulatory Framework for Distribution Networks to Enhance Deployment of Distributed Generation' on April 12, 2007 in Madrid, Spain.