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This is what your house looks like today.
Well, more or less...

The electricity that you use arrives through a cable, which comes from a provider, which is itself connected to a producer which continuously supplies electricity but is not yet able to store it...
The planet's energy resources are depleting, which creates a certain number of... let's say... challenges.

And you? You are a consumer.

You play a role... when you pay your bills.

It is no longer possible to carry on like this.

And it's going to change!
Because from now on, you can participate, and produce electricity yourself.

In order to save energy, new buildings are required to have reinforced thermal insulation, a good ventilation system, efficient appliances and be low-energy, but above all they will also have to produce electricity themselves.

In the future, new buildings will be designed to have a positive energy balance, which means they will produce more energy than they consume.

And your house's surfaces will generate energy.

Thanks to photovoltaic panels or micro wind turbines, wind power and solar power are converted into energy which you can use immediately.

For example, this 20 m² photovoltaic panel could provide enough electricity for your family of 4 for a year...
...not including heating or hot water.

Or this micro wind turbine can provide you with 100 to 1000 W of electrical power.

The electricity produced will be put immediately to everyday use, or, since we are still working out how to store electricity, it could be sold and consumed elsewhere.

That is where things are really going to change.

Because your house will not be the only one. It will be integrated into a network of small producers/consumers.

If the wind is strong here in the morning and then strong over there at night, electricity will be produced here in the morning and be in short supply over there. At the end of the day, it will be the opposite.

The same goes for the length of time the sun shines...
...it's what is known as intermittent energy.

That's why in the future you will save energy, as you will be able to exchange your electricity directly with your neighbours, selling your surplus and buying electricity from other producers, according to what you need and what you produce.

Your energy system will communicate with your neighbour's, which will be connected to others, which will consume and distribute the energy they produce.
Everyone will be linked through "intelligent" networks, which can manage and redistribute the electricity produced in each home, sending it around the neighbourhood, the town, the region, or potentially an even wider network...