[P2P-F] Fwd: Poor Richard commented on p2p energy

[Michel Bauwens]

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Hi Michel,
Poor Richard commented on your link.
Poor wrote: "I added the following to the discussion page of the 2p2 energy
wiki page: In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned,
community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed,
and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of
public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid. In the US, I believe
the single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in
place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net
metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In
many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid,
is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for
electricity. Such net metering policies need to be extended everywhere
throughout the US. Meanwhile, in areas where net metering is already in
place, I propose that an additional policy initiative be attempted. This
would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to
negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates
higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would
operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers
might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related
households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice
could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative
effort than existing "green power" programs require. As parts of the
existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to
build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no
institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of
energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or
overloads. It seems to me that these few simple measures would accomplish
most of the objectives discussed in the p2p energy wiki page and similar
measures should be possible in most places."

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