An increase in electricity generation from small-scale, customer-sited photovoltaic (PV) solar is changing the hourly pattern of metered electricity in New England, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Small-scale solar PV are systems with less than 1 megawatt (MW) of generating capacity. As a result of the increase in this type of solar generating capacity in New England, electricity demand on utilities was rapidly decreased during the morning and rapidly increasing during the evening.
