On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> 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 ? -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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