DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TRENDING TODAY: ITS IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTS IN RUSSIA
Distributed generation is a global trend, which is developing in Russia. Compared to European countries, the driving force for spreading distributed generation in Russia is the tendency expressed by the owners of industrial enterprises to reduce electricity costs. Additionally, distributed generation in Russia can be effective in solving the problem of power supply to the hard-to-reach areas and replacement of obsolete and non-effective generation. Wide spread distributed generation based on renewable energy sources leads to the need to create the target systems integrating distributed generation into the Unified Energy System.