Your Future As a Prosumer Looks Very Bright

A prosumer is both a consumer and a producer. In terms of energy, an prosumer generates energy as well as consumes it. If they generate more energy than they can utilize, they sell the excess to whomever needs energy. While the buildout of the Energy Internet is still in the future, those consumers who purchase solar arrays will be able to turn a tidy return on their investment in the future when it will be easy to earn a living by selling energy. Some have raised questions about whether or not the average consumer would want to deal with the complications of running their own energy company in their homes. Similar questions were raised about new tech products in the past: Refrigerators were a new technology in the past. Many thought that having blocks of ice delivered to their homes would make owning a refrigerator undesirable—but, they were wrong. TV was a new technology in the early Twentieth Century. Many thought that radio and going out to the theater were superior to TV. But, once again, the naysayers were wrong. Computers once needed huge rooms with massive air conditioners to operate. Most thought that no one in their right mind would ever want a computer in their home. Today, we carry around computers a million times more capable in our pockets. Many more products were considered impractical, yet today, they occupy a valued place in our lives. The age of owning your own utility plant right in your home is here. Oh, it's much more expensive today than it will be in the future, so you might want to wait for prices to come down. They're already plummeting, but that's just the beginning. They're on a long slide toward near zero marginal cost. In Hawai'i, solar beats grid energy on a non-subsidized price basis and that situation will be the norm within a few years everywhere in the USA. Don't wait too long, though. After you've installed solar-plus-storage, the system will have paid for itself in just a few years. After that, you'll be generating energy at near zero marginal cost, but selling it to the Energy Internet at a nice profit. A huge leap forward in storage technology is coming on the scene in the next couple of years. When that happens, there will be a land rush by consumers to buy it and become prosumers, generating profits from the sun every day.

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