"Declining DG system costs, more favorable regulatory treatment, and the development of ever smaller and more efficient DG, CHP (combined heat and power) and micro-CHP systems ensures that most utilities will find DG troublesome with revenue losses and hourly load impacts growing at an increasing rate," says Dr. Jerry Jackson, author of the white papers and president of Jackson Associates.

The white paper, "Turning Utility DG Threats Into Business Opportunities: Part I. Assessing the Threat," describes and illustrates DG assessment and planning issues with actual utility customer data. The paper may be viewed at: http:// www.dgmarketplace.com/wpdgeva l.html

Jackson Associates provides onsite workshops and Utility Service Area DG/CHP Market Reports to support investor-owned, public, municipal and cooperative electric utilities in assessing DG/CHP revenue, energy and hourly load impacts and in developing strategic business plans incorporating these technologies.

A unique feature of both the workshops and reports is the inclusion of sample analysis results for the client's own utility service area drawn from the one million-plus US and Canadian MAISY Utility Customer Databases. Information on workshops and reports are available at http://www.dgmarketplace.com ; information on MAISY databases is available at http://www.maisy.com .

Jackson Associates has been providing utility customer databases, energy analysis, marketing and technology analysis since 1982. A partial list of clients is available at: http:// www.dgmarketplace.com/contact. html SOURCE Jackson Associates