Distributed
generation has many important socio-economical benefits which make
stronger the need to develop this kind of electricity generation:
By installing many distributed
generators in many different rural areas leads to the development
of these areas. This happens because there are investments for
these areas and jobs are created for some technicians who are
usually staying far away. That means these technicians will may
be willing to move and stay in these rural areas and a part of
the total population will be distributed. Finally, jobs are going
to be created, just to cover the needs of these people and the
local population will have the option to stay for work in these
areas and not to move at the big cities.
With the distributed generation,
the energy source is near in the area of the demand and local
people who before didn’t have any idea for energy matters
and sustainability are becoming now more conscious.
By appropriate combining with
the electricity grid, distributed generation offers security of
the electricity supply. Faults are less and that means people
and cities or villages can cover their basic electricity needs
all the time.
Distributed generation can also
be used as a stand alone power option especially for islands and
for rural areas which have problems to be connected at the electricity
grid. The electricity demands at these places can be covered cheaper
and easier.
Distributed generation option
leads more developers to invest and maintains the competitiveness
in the electricity market. As a result, customers have more choices
for covering their electricity demands and can expect better support
and quality of supply.
Usually the projects concerned
with distributed generation have short construction time. This
result to less installation expenses and the developers start
earning money very soon. Moreover, for small-scale generators
there are small capital investments and the interest rate which
the developers may pay to the bank for the loans that they took
for buying and installing the equipment, can be small.