Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by jacksonlord

  1. jacksonlord

    Distributed generation interconnection

    Thanks again. Can I ask you some more questions?: I'm reading some information on a distribution circuit connected to a substation. It has numbers like Circuit Capacity (say, 9 MW) and Circuit Peak Load (say, 7 MW). Then it refers to the substation "bank" which has different numbers for Sub...
  2. jacksonlord

    Distributed generation interconnection

    Thanks. But what about distributed gen with a little more size that's selling wholesale power directly to the utility? Like 1 or 2 MW?
  3. jacksonlord

    Distributed generation interconnection

    This is a very basic question, but when distributed energy generation like solar interconnects to the distribution system, do they have to tie in directly to a substation? If so, how can medium-size generation be built on the distribution lines themselves without having to make large upgrades?

Part and Inventory Search