While achieving the ambitious energy transition targets is important to society, it is also costly. To keep these costs as low as possible and, thus, increase the chances of successfully accomplishing the energy transition, upholding the basic principles of the organisation of the electricity...

Electric power in OECD countries is mostly produced by large central generating stations, then transmitted along high voltage lines to local distribution systems that carry it to final consumers. Distributed generation plants are different. They produce power on an electricity consumer’s own...