https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisoncoleman/2019/06/16/the-german-tech-startup-thats-shifting-power-from-the-energy-conglomerates-to-the-consumer/
A new german utility company that only offers green electricity and saves 50% (20% consumer, 30% producer) with it's peer to peer marketplace (which is only fictitious you dont actually get electricity from these installations but your money gets wired to them, you get electricity from the net and in return they put electricity onto the net).
How is this innovation of peer to peer so much cheaper? How do normal utility companies operate?
With these price savings you would expect their business to expand rapidly and if they do succeed in that what would the limit of this be?
Wouldn't this rapidly start straining network capacity? If so, when? How would the cost of this strain be transfered to the end consumer?
I think it's /sci/ related because it has to do with a major type of infrastructure that I admittedly do not know much about.
A new german utility company that only offers green electricity and saves 50% (20% consumer, 30% producer) with it's peer to peer marketplace (which is only fictitious you dont actually get electricity from these installations but your money gets wired to them, you get electricity from the net and in return they put electricity onto the net).
How is this innovation of peer to peer so much cheaper? How do normal utility companies operate?
With these price savings you would expect their business to expand rapidly and if they do succeed in that what would the limit of this be?
Wouldn't this rapidly start straining network capacity? If so, when? How would the cost of this strain be transfered to the end consumer?
I think it's /sci/ related because it has to do with a major type of infrastructure that I admittedly do not know much about.
