Comments: We hear from the nukes, uranium companies, coal companies that we need to be "Energy Independent" but their process cost consumers and our health billion of dollars each year, their form of "Energy Independent" are blowing up mountains, blowing up hills for uranium mining, building nuke plants which will cost taxpayers $35 billion for each plant but the main problems with all this form of energy it has ruined our water and will continue ruining our water, water is a basic human right. So the best way to be truly, "Energy Independent" is control and created our own power so we can be as the following “they don’t need the power industry at all.”
NRG Energy is a huge provider of power to U.S. utilities, the biggest single provider, actually, with a large fleet of enormous fossil fuel plants. But now it’s getting into a different business.
NRG has started selling solar panels directly to homeowners. And it intends to couple those solar systems with fuel cells and micro-turbines that can generate power from natural gas, to serve as backup when the sun isn’t shining.
” Put more simply, consumers will realize “they don’t need the power industry at all.”
Think about that! For the first time since the power industry was created in the late 1800s, consumers will need no intermediary between them and their electricity. Says Jim Rogers, CEO of utility giant Duke Energy, “It is obviously a potential threat to us over the long term.”
Of course NRG is not alone.
Tons of companies are springing up lately to sell or lease micropower solutions directly to customers. And as those customers generate more of their own power, and hook up with other members of their community who are doing the same through microgrids, utilities will increasingly be pushed out of the picture.
That’s a big, big deal. It’s just beginning now, just in its larval stages, but the fact that the biggest utility power provider in the country is getting into the game is a clear signal that it’s real. We live in interesting times.
http://grist.org/climate-energy/countrys-biggest-utility-power-provider-gets-into-the-distributed-energy-game/