Resource Dynamics Corporation-Distributed Generation

Creating Opportunities

Taking advantage of market niches is the key to profitability and growth in the distributed generation business.Distributed generation enjoys a competitive advantage over other solutions in a number of specific applications. In addition, as technologies improve and markets mature, distributed generation will find new niches. With the emerging competition and improved technologies, the ability of small, decentralized, and distributed power generators to provide customers with solutions has led to significant business opportunities. Applications for distributed generation include, but are not limited to, the following cases:

Allowing customers to generate their own electricity, with or without grid backup

Permitting customers to generate power while also serving their thermal and/or cooling loads

Giving customers the option of generating a portion of their electricity onsite, to reduce their peak demand and/or lower the amount of electricity purchased during peak price periods

Permitting customers to sell excess generation back into the grid when their own demand is low

Allowing customers a cost-effective option to improve their power quality

Providing customers with "green" power

Use of distributed generation by load aggregators

Allowing utilities to realize transmission and distribution system benefits

Using distributed generation for gas/electric arbitrage

Using distributed generation to balance supply and demand

Using distributed generation to provide ancillary services at the distribution level

Existing and potential stakeholders in the energy industry are evaluating where distributed generation should fit into their business planning process. What is still needed by most players is a detailed, quantifiable justification for making a business investment in distributed generation opportunities and a plan for responding to potential threats. Going beyond conceptual theory, detailed economic analyses and numeric valuations of applying distributed generation in your potential markets are needed. RDC helps sort out when, where, how and under what circumstances distributed generation makes sense and how to respond to distributed generation threats. You will then be able to make sound business decisions based on actual market and technology information.