Distributed renewable energy technology program

Renewable Energy at Resource Recovery Facilities. Learn about innovative, replicable renewables, distributed generation, and microgrid-related solutions and best practices implemented by Better Plants Challenge partners. Paul Lemar has 30 years of experience in engineering, economic, and environmental analysis of energy efficiency technologies and management practices.

He is a Technical Account Manager for the U. Paul has directed numerous economic feasibility analyses and market studies of onsite power systems, facility energy costs, and energy storage technologies. He is also a noted lecturer and author, and regularly addresses utility, manufacturer, and industrial audiences on topics including combined heat and power, on-site power systems and cogeneration, industrial energy use, efficiency improvement, and new energy technologies.

Paul holds a B. As a result, these third-party models are attractive alternatives to direct ownership of a residential PV system but require states to pass enabling legislation to allow them to happen. Programs include permitting fee reduction or elimination, grant programs, loan programs, property-assessed clean energy financing, personal and corporate tax incentives credits, deductions, and exemptions , property tax incentives, rebate programs, and sales tax incentives.

Financing an EnergySmart School. Interconnection is defined as the technical procedures and legal requirements surrounding energy customers' ability to connect their small-scale renewable energy projects to the electricity grid. The process is regulated by each state, though utilities are usually tasked with executing the approval process. State governments can lead-by-example by promoting renewable energy programs and policies. Efforts to lead-by-example include using renewable energy resources including alternative fuel for vehicles and incorporating renewable energy generation into new and existing public buildings.

Solar Energy Resource Center. Distributed energy technologies may cause some negative environmental issues at the end of their useful life when they are replaced or removed. Skip to main content. Energy and the Environment. Contact Us. Distributed Generation of Electricity and its Environmental Impacts.