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What's an example of how energy consumers

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are becoming energy producers?

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There’s a new term called “prosumer”,

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which is a combination of the consumer

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and the producer.

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You know, we’re used to a system where

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the utility produces energy

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and we simply consume it.

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But with the shift to renewables,

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that are so decentralized,

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we have the opportunity to produce

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our own energy,

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whether it is just solar panels on the rooftop,

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or it’s energy that has been stored

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in the battery of our electric car.

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To the extent

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we don’t need that energy,

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we can sell some of it back to the utility.

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