Behind the meter
Generation connected directly to a load rather than to the public grid, bypassing the interconnection process at the cost of flexibility.
A behind-the-meter arrangement places generation on the customer side of the utility meter, so power flows to the load without being delivered across the public network. For a large consumer facing a multi-year interconnection queue, it is the most direct route to energization available.
The trade-offs are specific. The load gives up the grid's implicit reliability and must provide its own redundancy or retain a backup connection; the arrangement raises questions about cost allocation that regulators treat differently in every jurisdiction; and the generation is no longer available to the system at large, which is why proposals of any size attract scrutiny rather than a routine approval.
It has become central to compute siting because it converts a queue problem into a construction problem. That makes it a supply-chain question rather than a regulatory one: the turbines, transformers and switchgear needed to build private generation are themselves on long lead times.
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