[P2P-F] P2P and the economic calculation problem

Tue Jan 12 09:32:26 CET 2016

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Roberto Verzola <rverzola at gn.apc.org>
wrote:

> Please look more closely at net metering and the energy exchanges that
> happen under it. It seems to be similar to the kind of mechanism you are
> looking for, as follows: It measures the individual contribution of a
> solar owner's surplus (the reversal in the electric meter) to the grid
> supply, and which entitles the solar owner to credit equivalent to his
> contribution. You can look at this contribution as a contribution to
> the common supply of electricity, although it just so happens that this
> contribution is privately appropriated by the utility at this time. But
> one can imagine the surplus contributions of many solar owners as
> something similar to code, information, etc. contributed to a common
> pool. From this perspective, the grid is a network that is now
> poised to turn into a commons where the accounting mechanism (my term,
> equivalent to your 'economic calculation', I believe) has already been
> found--net metering. I'm not sure yet that this is so, but it think it
> deserves a second look.
>

dear Roberto, brilliant concept, but how do you distinguish a commons form
from a market form (in which peer exchange their surplus for money); not
sure if the german feed-in tariff goes to the consumer coops or the
individuals ?

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