IEC-IEC白皮书：未来分布式电力的稳定电网运行（英文）.docxVIP

Executive summary The electricity utility industry iscurrently undergoing the largest disruption since its inception more than a century ago. Driven by the five global factors of decarbonization, decentralization, deregulation, democratization and digitalization, a diverse set of devices involving various disruptive resources are now connected to the electricity grid - devices that are generally owned and operated by electricity customers and deployed behind the meter. These disruptive resources are causing grid operators to rethink how the electricity grid will be managed, because unlike traditional generation sources, these resources are often invisible to the grid operator (limited visibility), outside of the control of the grid operator (limited control), characterized by hard-to-anticipate generation and consumption levels (limited predictability) and deployed without central planning (limited coordination). The challenges posed by disruptive resources are covered in Section 1 and the driving factors behind their rise in Section 2. As is the case with all disruptive innovations, following a chaotic period in which market players and technologies have been frantically searching for the optimal approach to their integration, a new equilibrium is emerging. Grid operators today are working to accommodate that new equilibrium by changing operational techniques. Market designs are allowing for a transition from a situation in which these new resources constitute problematic elements to one in which resulting devices will enable a future of cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power. To understand this future, important concepts related to managing the grid are covered in Section 3, with a number of market-based constructs for managing delivered services being covered in Section 4. In Section 5, this White Paper overviews some of the methods by which new resources are currently being incorporated in grid operations through both reliability-based and economics-based stru