Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid

Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by leggomylibro on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:40PM (#14646933)

Yeah, it really seems like a better application of a 'micro-grid' would be to provide alternative green electricity to your neighbors.

Like okay, you have a bunch of solar panels and a battery bank. Why not let people plug in at a kiosk near the bank? At a micro scale, your neighbors could hook up a heavy-duty appliance cable or two to their houses. You could use RFID cards, magstrip cards, username/password, a web frontend, an app, etc for identification, metering, and billing.

Sure you could accept cryptocurrency for account credits, but you could also accept cash or credit/debit. It's just another payment processor.

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Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by icebraining on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:27PM (#14647907)

Well, assuming the law lets you do that at all. In my European country, my uncle tried to do something similar (purchase a wind turbine and sell electricity to his village neighbors) and he discovered there's simply no legal way to sell electricity except to the main grid company.

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Re:Brooklyn’s Latest Craze: Making Your Own Electric Grid by gjem97 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:02PM (#14647675)

Yes, for example I think this makes sense for apartment buildings and other communal living situations. I think it would make sense to do solar and/or CHP depending on regional weather.

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