{"id":161,"date":"2005-09-26T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/2005\/09\/26\/peer-to-peer-energy-161\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T13:44:20","slug":"peer-to-peer-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/peer-to-peer-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer-to-Peer Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4245584.stm\" target=\"_blan\" rel=\"noopener\">Microgrids as peer-to-peer energy<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<font face=\"monospace\">&#8220;Small networks of power generators in &#8216;microgrids&#8217; could transform the electricity network in the way that the net changed distributed communication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;the microgrids could work like peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies, such as BitTorrents, where demand is split up and shared around the network of &#8216;users&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Micro-CHP units work by turning heat which would normally escape through flues into electricity. Homeowners then sell any surplus electricity back to the national grid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;&#8216;In a traditional system, you have the power station and electricity flows from power station to users &#8211; it is unidirectional. The whole network is constructed around that unidirectional power flow.&#8217;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microgrids as peer-to-peer energy &#8220;Small networks of power generators in &#8216;microgrids&#8217; could transform the electricity network in the way that the net changed distributed communication. &#8230; &#8220;the microgrids could work like peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies, such as BitTorrents, where demand is split up and shared around the network of &#8216;users&#8217;. &#8230;&#8221;Micro-CHP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}