IMAGINE watching your electricity meter run backwards as, instead of using power, you actually donate some to the grid. That’s the offer that will be held out to consumers over the next decade as millions of households get the chance to generate their own electricity using a new breed of domestic power generators.
Whether they are based on gas-powered boilers that heat the house too, or satellite-dish-sized wind turbines fixed to the roof, these appliances will make entering the power market as easy as buying a washing machine. At least, that’s the theory.
The prospect stems not so much from…
