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ResEPA helps you go from a basic energy buyer to a home power maker (what the energy industry calls an "energy prosumer".
Definition:
An individual or household that both consumes electricity and generates their own (for example with solar PV, battery, or EV), often managing when they use and export power.
Benefits:
Insure your energy dependent lifestyle is economically available at predictable costs. You may also want the options available to secure yourself completely from the energy disruptions that can ensure your energy dependent lifestyle during energy disruptions.
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Change Your Energy Mindset …
Produce for your household and family's energy needs, store access energy produced above and beyond your needs, store energy to secure your energy availability for an planned or predetermined period of time.
You’re evolving from a traditional energy buyer into a smart residential energy prosumer, actively managing how you produce, store, and use electricity at home.
You’re not just an energy buyer anymore. You’re a smart energy homeowner who can make, store, and control your own power.
Today “energy prosumer” is a mainstream term in utility programs, academic literature, and industry marketing whenever households with solar, batteries, EVs or smart home controls participate actively in energy markets
It often appears alongside concepts like distributed energy resources, net metering, and home energy management systems, especially for residential customers.[
Originally, the term was not specific to energy; it was about customers participating actively in production (e.g., customization, co‑creation) instead of just passively consuming.
The word “prosumer” has been around since 1980 in general marketing theory, and “energy prosumer” has been widely used in the power sector since at least the 2010s.
Futurist Alvin Toffler (Author of the highly acclaimed 1960's book "Future Shock") is credited with coining “prosumer” in 1980 to describe a hybrid of producer and consumer in his work on future economic trends.
By the mid‑2010s, energy scholars and policymakers began using “energy prosumer” to describe customers who both consume and generate electricity with distributed resources like rooftop solar and batteries.
A 2016 law review article titled “The Energy Prosumer” analyzed the emergence of these new actors who generate power, provide storage, or offer demand response services back to the grid.