Your editorial was right in describing the benefits of distributed generation. However, you did not address a major hurdle to implementing DG: opposition to DG by the local electric utilities. Both in our experience and in speaking with others in industry, common utility practices include sending out a team of "cogen killers" to dissuade site owners from installing DG projects, and when projects do proceed placing as many roadblocks as possible to implementation and startup of projects.

Mark McDannel
Supervising Engineer
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts