Distributed Resources
H. Lee Willis · 1997
A host of measures, often lumped together as “distributed resources,” can be applied to reshape or reduce the demand of electric consumers, as well as to mitigate the impact interruptions and poor voltage have on their usage. These include conservation and load management methods that were traditionally known as Demand Side Management (DSM) as well as Distributed Generation (DG) and a number of power quality methods (PQM). Although diverse in nature and purpose, they all share two characteristics. They try to improve the value the consumer receives from energy in some manner, and they are implemented at or near the actual site of energy consumption.