Energy Magazine December 2019 | Page 45

“ The only way that major electricity users will be able to sustain the costs of managing electricity in the future will be by generating and storing their own electricity and selling back to the grid ”

— Carl Ennis
Head of Product and System Sales , Smart Infrastructure , Siemens
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“ From buying electricity generated by government-run power stations , larger organisations have moved to sourcing electricity from a range of providers and now , increasingly , to generating their own electricity , mainly with solar power or wind turbines ,” explains Carl Ennis . “ Now we all need to be looking at both selling electricity to the national and micro grids along with on-site storage of electricity generated in low demand periods for use at busier times . Costs are falling for Internet of Things ( IoT ) products and energy manage-
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