The world of power generation is changing. The spread of deregulation worldwide and the introduction of new technologies is changing the way power is produced. Consumers and businesses have the opportunity to choose power providers or even produce their own power.

Distributed generation is defined as power generation that is less than 1 Megawatt, and where power is produced close to the consumer. The many benefits of distributed generation are listed below.

The EW15 is well suited for distributed generation. It can be installed in remote locations and produce sufficient electricity to power communities or groups of buildings rather than single user loads.

Many governments now allow for Net Billing, which means that power produced by wind turbines or any other legal distributed generation power producer "turns back" the electricity meter. The wind generator is "tied in" to the power grid, and excess power produced by the wind generator is sold to the utility. An EW15 in Cassop, England produces 145,000 kW hours of electricity per year, of which 105,000 kW hours is sold to the local utility.

In the U.S. individual states set the limits for how much electricity a consumer can sell back to the utility. For example, if you have a 50 kW machine and you use only 10 kW, you can sell the remaining 40 kW back the utility in Texas but only 15 kW back to the utility in Vermont.

U.S. Net Billing Map

Net billing buyback limits in instantaneous kW