article_snippet.sent: Home battery packs could disrupt the utility market.
article_snippet.sent: One can imagine a day when battery storage technology or micro turbines could allow customers to be electric grid independent,' a report warning about disruption said.
article_snippet.sent: The system would let homeowners with solar panels or other sources of renewable energy easily store homeowners with solar panels or other sources of renewable energy energy at home, rather than the current model whereby homeowners with solar panels or other sources of renewable energy sell power back to energy suppliers as it is produced, then buy it again during peak times.
article_snippet.sent: Home battery packs could disrupt the utility market.
article_snippet.sent: One can imagine a day when battery storage technology or micro turbines could allow customers to be electric grid independent,' a report warning about disruption said.
article_snippet.sent: Stationary storage systems could be part of a fossil-fuel free lifestyle in which an individual has solar panels on the roof, generating electricity that can power home appliances and recharge batteries in a Tesla Model S sedan parked in the garage.
article_snippet.sent: Government subsidies and a dramatic drop in the price of lithium ion batteries are drawing more companies into the home electricity storage business.
article_snippet.sent: Though valued at just $200 million in 2012, the energy storage industry is expected to grow to $19 billion by 2017, according to research firm IHS CERA.
article_snippet.sent: In Tesla's view, such storage systems could become part of a fossil-fuel-free lifestyle in which people can have solar panels on people roof generating electricity to power people home and recharge people electric car batteries .