The rapid deployment of distributed generation challenges utilities for both reliability and power quality. In this session, speakers will present use cases that illustrate how continuous power quality monitoring, alerting, and automatic report generation allow utilities to stay ahead of problems related to distributed generation. They will discuss how maintaining the basics of voltage regulation and imbalance has become event more difficult with rapidly fluctuating distributed generation output leading to more complex power quality problems such as flicker, rapid voltage change, and instantaneous excursions. They’ll also discuss the tools available to help utilities leverage the IEEE 1547 and 2800 standards to ensure operators of distribution generation are doing their part to maintain distribution power quality.