A new association has been formed by eleven European research institutes to harmonise standards for both solar and wind grid based distributed power generation. The new association, DERlab, which stands for European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories) is to be based at the Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology (ISET) in Kassel, Germany.
In the Network of Excellence DERlab, supported by the European Commission, the research institutes have been developing joint requirements and quality criteria for the interconnection and operation of distributed energy resources since the end of 2005.
“With our collaboration, we want to ensure the quality of decentralised power generators and co-ordinate future test procedures at an early stage”, Philipp Strauss, chairman of the board of the new association.
