Distributed Generation Program

On March 27, 2006 the Department of Public Utility Control issued two final decisions that adopt the various features of new programs to provide incentives to electric customers that install customer-side distributed resources. Customer-side distributed generation is generation owned and operated by individual electric customers. Participating businesses can choose to invest in equipment to generate electricity independently to cover some or all of their electricity needs.

These new initiatives represent one of the key policy objectives of last year's Energy Independence legislation- encouraging the development of new distributed resources that will provide benefits to both the individual customers that pursue the projects and the state's electric customers overall. The implementation of these new programs should serve to achieve a variety of important policy objectives. Specifically, these initiatives will: 1) assist individual business customers that participate by reducing and managing their energy costs, 2) reduce electric costs (federally mandated congestion costs) for all Connecticut electric consumers, 3) encourages investment in and deployment of important new technologies, and 4) enhance electric system reliability by further diversifying the range of resources we rely upon to meet our electric needs.

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For more information contact Devang Patel. 203-499-2096 or email devang.patel@uinet.com