P2P Energy

P2P energy production and distribution

See the special issue of the on-line, political journal Re-public.

From http://www.re-public.gr/en/?cat=53

"While writing the text of the call for papers for the current issue, our primary aim was to invite contributions towards a critical view of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy production and distribution. However, a call for papers has always been an open challenge — being unsure of what and where you will finally get — and so we came to understand that in fact, before critically examine the aforementioned, a solid, integral theoretical framework has to be articulated.

Hence, the papers and the interviews included in this special issue describe the certain context in which discussions and experiments, about and with these alternative modes of energy production and distribution, are taking place. Moreover, this issue sheds light on the relevant infrastructures; provides assumptions about the future; refers to the Greek case; and deals with the emerging political economy of P2P energy production and distribution.

Hopefully this issue will serve as a stepping stone towards a better realization of the P2P paradigm’s potential and its application to the real world."

Vasilis Kostakis, Guest Editor

Contributors include: Michel Bauwens – Setting the broader context for P2P infrastructures: The long waves and the new social contract

Walt Patterson – Infrastructure keeps the lights on

Eric Hunting – On the prospects and strategy of peer-to-peer energy

Hermann Scheer – Towards a new energy revolution

George Papanikolaou – Peer to Peer energy production and the social conflicts in the era of “green development”

Stelios Stavroulakis – The urgency of peer-to-peer communities for a smooth transition to renewables

Vijay Vaitheeswaran – Micropower and the coming energy revolution

Michalis Psalidas – Emerging tendencies in the production, distribution and use of electrical power

Andrianos Tesas – The electricity market, p2p energy and smart grids in Greece

José Morales Barroso – P2P energy and the information grid