Transforming Buildings into Prosumers with the Smart GridPosted May 21, 2013 The Smart Grid will trigger many transformations. Chief among them is the change in the relationship that consumers have with electricity. We can transform from consumption roles to prosumption roles – producing electricity as well as consuming it. One of the most prominent enablers for us to engage as prosumers are the buildings we inhabit as work and home spaces. Buildings as prosumers will have profound impacts on the Smart Grid value chain. It is also a harbinger of another transformation – the shift of “power”, so to speak, from being concentrated in the hands of utilities as the sole owners/distributors of electricity, to prosumers on a vastly distributed and decentralized basis. Read more . . . |