Introduction to Alternative and Renewable Energy: Distributed Electricity Generation

These presentation slides are intended for use in a college-level introductory course in alternative and renewable energy. The slides include an overview of distributed generation electricity. The main sections covered are centralized power generation, electricity demand management, decentralized power generation and load imbalance mitigation. Many useful graphics are included which provide data on the US power grids, sources of electricity and other related topics. This presentation may be downloaded in PDF file format.