An Overview of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnection: Current Practices and Emerging Solutions
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This guidebook provides an overview of key issues for utilities and utility regulators to consider as deployments of distributed energy resources (DER) increase, including what has been tried in the field and emerging good practices. Topics covered include: Interconnection Applications and Application Processing; Interconnection Standards; Advanced Inverters; Impact Screening and Evaluation; Estimating Future DER deployments; Distribution System Upgrades and Planning in a DER context; Cybersecurity; Storage and Solar plus Storage Interconnection; and Cost Allocation.
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AB - This guidebook provides an overview of key issues for utilities and utility regulators to consider as deployments of distributed energy resources (DER) increase, including what has been tried in the field and emerging good practices. Topics covered include: Interconnection Applications and Application Processing; Interconnection Standards; Advanced Inverters; Impact Screening and Evaluation; Estimating Future DER deployments; Distribution System Upgrades and Planning in a DER context; Cybersecurity; Storage and Solar plus Storage Interconnection; and Cost Allocation.
AU - Horowitz, Kelsey
A2 - Peterson, Zac
A3 - Coddington, Michael
A4 - Ding, Fei
A5 - Sigrin, Ben
A6 - Saleem, Danish
A7 - Baldwin, Sara E
A8 - Lydic, Brian
A9 - Stanfield, Sky C
A10 - Enbar, Nadav
A11 - Coley, Steven
A12 - Sundararajan, Aditya
A13 - Schroeder, Chris
DB - C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - Solar
KW - Photovoltaics
KW - PV
KW - Power electronics and inverters
KW - Power electronics
KW - Inverters
KW - Battery energy storage
KW - Cybersecurity
KW - Standards
KW - Interconnection
KW - Protection
KW - Case studies
KW - Performance
KW - Maintenance and operations
KW - Operations
KW - Maintenance
KW - Commissioning
LA - English
DA - 2019/04/01
PY - 2019
PB - NLR
T1 - An Overview of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnection: Current Practices and Emerging Solutions
UR - https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/199
ER -
Horowitz, Kelsey, et al. An Overview of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnection: Current Practices and Emerging Solutions. NLR, 1 April, 2019, C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/199.
Horowitz, K., Peterson, Z., Coddington, M., Ding, F., Sigrin, B., Saleem, D., Baldwin, S., Lydic, B., Stanfield, S., Enbar, N., Coley, S., Sundararajan, A., & Schroeder, C. (2019). An Overview of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnection: Current Practices and Emerging Solutions. [Data set]. C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. NLR. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/199
Horowitz, Kelsey, Zac Peterson, Michael Coddington, Fei Ding, Ben Sigrin, Danish Saleem, Sara E Baldwin, Brian Lydic, Sky C Stanfield, Nadav Enbar, Steven Coley, Aditya Sundararajan, and Chris Schroeder. An Overview of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnection: Current Practices and Emerging Solutions. NLR, April, 1, 2019. Distributed by C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/199
@misc{CMIX_Dataset_199,
title = {An Overview of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnection: Current Practices and Emerging Solutions},
author = {Horowitz, Kelsey and Peterson, Zac and Coddington, Michael and Ding, Fei and Sigrin, Ben and Saleem, Danish and Baldwin, Sara E and Lydic, Brian and Stanfield, Sky C and Enbar, Nadav and Coley, Steven and Sundararajan, Aditya and Schroeder, Chris},
abstractNote = {This guidebook provides an overview of key issues for utilities and utility regulators to consider as deployments of distributed energy resources (DER) increase, including what has been tried in the field and emerging good practices. Topics covered include: Interconnection Applications and Application Processing; Interconnection Standards; Advanced Inverters; Impact Screening and Evaluation; Estimating Future DER deployments; Distribution System Upgrades and Planning in a DER context; Cybersecurity; Storage and Solar plus Storage Interconnection; and Cost Allocation.},
url = {https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/199},
year = {2019},
howpublished = {C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange, NLR, https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/199},
note = {Accessed: 2026-06-18}
}
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Data from Apr 1, 2019
Last updated Mar 30, 2026
Submitted Jun 2, 2026
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NLR
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Kelsey Horowitz
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