The trend toward buildings which might be powered by alternative energy sources, starting from wind turbines and solar collection cells to hydrogen fuel cells and biomass gases, is one that should continue into the 21st century and beyond. We have great need of becoming more energy independent, and not having to rely on the supplying of fossil fuels from unstable nations who can be hostile to us and our interests. But even beyond this factor, we as individuals need to get “from the grid” as well as stop having to become so reliant on government-lobbying giant oil corporations who, while they don't seem to be really involved in any covert conspiracy, nevertheless have a very stranglehold on people in terms of heating their homes (if not through oil, then heat usually supplied by grid-driven electricity, one more stranglehold).
Senior Analyst with Carbon Free, puts it, inevitably, the expansion of distributed generation will lead to the restructuring on the retail electricity market as well as the generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure. The ability providers may have to diversify their business to structure for revenues lost through household energy microgeneration. She is concerning the conclusions by a group of UK analysts, herself included among them, who call themselves Carbon Free. Carbon Free has been studying the ever-growing trend toward alternative energy-using homes in England as well as West. This trend is being driven by ever-more government recommendation and sometimes backing of different energy research and development, the rising cost of oil and other fossil fuels, apprehension about environmental degradation, and desires to get energy independent. Carbon Free concludes that, assuming traditional energy prices remain at their current level or rise, microgeneration (meeting all of one's home's energy needs by installing alternative energy technology for example solar panels or wind turbines) will become to home energy supply what the Internet became to home communications and data gathering, and eventually this would have deep effects on the companies of the prevailing energy supply companies.
Carbon Free's analyses also show that energy companies themselves have jumped in on the experience and seek to leverage microgeneration to their very own improvement for opening up new markets for ourselves. Carbon Free cites the example of electricity companies (in the UK) reporting that they are seriously finding and developing ideas for new geothermal energy facilities, as these agencies see geothermal energy production like a highly profitable wave on the future. Another conclusion of Carbon Free is that solar energy hot water heating technology is an efficient technology for reducing home water heating costs in the future, even though it is initially quite expensive to install. However, solar power seriously isn't yet cost-effective for companies, as they require too much in just how of specialized plumbing to implement solar energy hot water heating. Lastly, Carbon Free tells us that installing wind turbines is an efficient method of reducing home electricity costs, while also being more independent. However, again this is initially an extremely expensive thing to have installed, and corporations would do well to start slashing their prices on these devices or they could find themselves losing market share.
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