A curated knowledge hub of resources relating to DG development. Browse technical guides, regulatory templates, and research outputs.
Regional Resources
Decret n 2016-783 du 12 octobre 2016 – Cote d’Ivoire
DG rules for Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania
Distributed Generation White Paper (GET.Transform approach)
A generic White Paper on the rationale, benefits, cautions, processes and other issues relating to integrating DG onto utility networks. Clarifies the GET.Transform support program approach to DG. Can be customised and used to guide an approach to DG in specific countries.
Supporting the Development of Distributed Energy in Africa
This Regulatory Guidebook offers practical guidance to adapt regulatory frameworks so that they maximize the benefits to society of growing use of distributed energy (DE), and to allow regulatory reforms to be realistically implemented in Africa.
International Resources
Scaling Up Variable Renewable Energy: The Role of Grid Codes
Grid codes provide the rules for the power system and energy market operation, ensuring operational stability, security of supply and well-functioning wholesale markets. A set of grid codes can include, for instance, connection codes, operating codes, planning codes, market codes. This report provides guidance to regulators, policy makers, system operators and other stakeholders on how grid connection codes should be developed and implemented. It considers the country context with a view to enabling a higher share of VRE in the power system (IRENA).
Analysis of Indian Electricity Distribution Systems for the Integration of High Shares of Rooftop PV
The report is a summarised version of a study which provides an overview of the characteristics of the Indian power system and its problems with regard to a large-scale rooftop PV rollout, as well as a template for distribution companies on how to deal with rising PV shares, which studies to conduct and which technology options to select.
Authour:Thomas Ackermann, Eckehard Tröster, Peter-Philipp Schierhorn, Bharadwaj Narasimhan, Jan-David Schmidt and Dwipen Boruah
Distributed Generation for Self-Consumption: Key Aspects and Recommendations of Good Practice
This paper addresses the need to define all important aspects of self-consumption with the focus on commercial issues and avoidance of cross-subsidization among consumer’s groups. A primary goal of this paper is to recognize all important aspects that need to be regulated to make prosumers concept fully effective in practice. Where possible it provides recommendations that can be used as a good practice for policy makers in the European Union Energy Community countries (ECDSO-E Working Group, EU).
