Front-of-meter (FOM) wholesale distributed generation (WDG)

The Clean Coalition is working to unleash the vastly untapped FOM/WDG market in the U.S.

Generating energy close to where it is consumed, rather than forcing communities to rely on faraway fossil fuel plants and inefficient long-distance power transmission, creates an energy system that is decentralized and more resilient than centralized generation, which relies on a few large power plants located far from the communities that consume the energy.

California and many other states already have an effective policy in place for clean local energy at the retail level, behind the customer’s meter: net energy metering (NEM). But NEM typically works best for residential installations — like rooftop solar on single-family homes — or other owner-occupied properties. The policy doesn’t work well for the commercial-scale solar segment, including non-owner-occupied properties, split-metered facilities, and sites with little on-site load.

That’s why we need policies and programs that unleash the FOM/WDG market to provide all of its benefits.