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A new network paradigm for localized power production and storage – By Brendan Burke

How it works

Individual households pay a monthly flat fee for infrastructure access to the company that maintains power lines. Households then choose what local form of power they want to consume.  You can purchase power from your neighbors, small power projects in your area, or large producers. Power comes to your house intermittently due to various modes of production such as wind or solar which are not base load. On your property is a small power plant that is a fuel cell or some other advanced storage type. You then store the power and consume as needed. You pay the provider of the power separately from the fixed fee transmission costs.

Power goes from the provider to the consumer via power network nodes that work similar to internet routers. These power switches are mounted on existing poles where transformers are currently mounted. The new device will act both as a transformer and power router. Another option is to mount small smart fuel cells in place of transformers. The fuel cells will store power and then release power on demand to customers in the community grid thus making pole mounted base load power storage.

Customers get data via the internet on power producers. Customers can sign various contract types and choose whom they purchase power from. Incentives could be offered for purchasing power produced locally. Rating and feedback system can exist for power producers.

Power companies partner with producers of products for a new smart power paradigm. They use a strategy similar to cell phone companies where a loss is taken on the hardware but made up later on subscription services.

Don’t just feed power back into the grid, feed power to your community.

Advantages

By making locally produced power it relieves the burden on large scale power plants

Power companies can enter new income streams by partnering with smaller local power producing companies

Power companies can become profitable on a subscription based model rather than a power production model

Better job growth over existing power production and distribution model

Growth of concept as it relates to a new power network.

By allowing individuals to be part of an open source power structure we may see the emergence of new user created products and business’s similar to internet disruptive technology.

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