The Rise of the Prosumer

SunPower CEO Tom Werner is betting on a future grid filled with solar and batteries, and believes the shift will be even more dramatic for a subset of consumers: "In the next five years, customers are going to decide what they pay the utility," he said. It's clear that a surge in distributed technologies that empower the customer -- creating so-called "prosumers" — are set to throw the traditional power delivery model into disarray. But predicting where the utility-customer relationship is headed is still a guessing game.

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