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Abstract-The today situation of the renewable distributed generation in Argentina is presented, explaining the causes of its low spread. Also the influence of the low electric energy tariffs and its non-uniformity along the country is explained. It is considered that one of the main reasons for the low application is due to the utilities opposition to this type of source, analyzing the invoked causes and the mistakes of this argument. Same international experience is also presented. Concluding in that several years will be necessary to revert this tendency and that it is very important that people takes conscience of the environment damage caused by the massive use of the fossil fuels.

The integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) implies an important challenge for the protection of the distribution network, due to the incorporation of devices with less capacity to withstand normal disturbances in distribution systems, particularly for overcurrents and overvoltages. The increasingly widespread use of power electronics, incorporated in rectifiers and inverters, which due to its weakness requires highspeed protection devices, complicates coordination with the traditional protection of distribution systems. Converters (rectifiers and inverters) require ultra-fast protection against high current faults, conditions that currently only meet high breaking capacity fuses. The response characteristics of these ultra-fast fuses, oblige the professional in charge of the protection of the distribution system to have a deep knowledge about the behavior of the power electronics in the face of overcurrents, and to know also how the fuses, through the selection of its rated values and characteristic curves protects it. Coordination of the rating values and characteristics of these fuses with their counterparts (when they exist) of traditional protection devices is the main objective of this article. Particular terms are explained in detail, such as fault current asymmetry and its effect on the coordination of protections, specific energy, etc. It is concluded that deep knowledge of the dissimilar characteristics of power electronics devices and the usual devices of distribution networks, with regard to their protections, are essential to obtain a maximum use of the traditional scheme with the addition of DER.