Is decentralized generation a part of the wider energy industry – or does it belong to its host energy users? Both, perhaps.
Cogeneration plants have long suffered from belonging fully to neither the energy supply industry or the consumer whose site they supply. Cogen and other decentralized energy generators often occupy an uneasy middle ground – sometimes operated by the host facility or building; in other cases by a utility-connected third party.
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