• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    9 months ago

    You start running into major issues with regulation and ownership of equipment that there isn’t a vested interest in solving. If a local battery isn’t owned by the utility company, who owns it? How do you track power input and use? Can one house use another house’s power?

    It is a lot less complicated to keep things separated.

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      9 months ago

      Sorry I should have probably worded it better I meant that it would be run by a public utility not by residents.

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        9 months ago

        And how do you answer the second and third questions?

        Things get a lot cleaner when you make the local infrastructure owned by a public utility.