Distributed Generation - Literature Review and Outline of the Swiss Situation

This report intends to give an overview over various aspects of distributed generation. Distributed Generation was favoured in the last few years due to the liberalisation process of the electricity infrastructure as well as to the impulse to produce electricity independent of fossil fuels. The number of small decentral installations of e.g. wind turbines, photovoltaic systems or combined-heat-and-power plants therefore has increased significantly. This leads to changes in the topology of the existing network which will be discussed together with various other aspects as e.g. protection, forecasting, dispatching, combining of stochastically producing generator as well as cost distribution. In a second part, the focus will be put on Switzerland to determine the actual state as well as current and future needs and trends regarding the embedding of distributed generation.