<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Roberto Verzola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rverzola@gn.apc.org" target="_blank">rverzola@gn.apc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2ui" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Please look more closely at net metering and the energy exchanges that<br>
happen under it. It seems to be similar to the kind of mechanism you are<br>
looking for, as follows: It measures the individual contribution of a<br>
solar owner's surplus (the reversal in the electric meter) to the grid<br>
supply, and which entitles the solar owner to credit equivalent to his<br>
contribution. You can look at this contribution as a contribution to<br>
the common supply of electricity, although it just so happens that this<br>
contribution is privately appropriated by the utility at this time. But<br>
one can imagine the surplus contributions of many solar owners as<br>
something similar to code, information, etc. contributed to a common<br>
pool. From this perspective, the grid is a network that is now<br>
poised to turn into a commons where the accounting mechanism (my term,<br>
equivalent to your 'economic calculation', I believe) has already been<br>
found--net metering. I'm not sure yet that this is so, but it think it<br>
deserves a second look.</div></blockquote></div><br>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 ?<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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