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Wait, why should an electric company be the only one allowed to sell electricity?
If I’m paying for it from them it’s mine. Can I put it in cellphone chargers and rent them out?
Why can’t I sell car charging to my buddy that comes and parks in my driveway and insists on paying for the pixies he uses?
I don’t know but would guess the official answer is something like:
But tbh my very first thought was landlord abuse
Edit: and FWIW what you’re describing sounds more like a service, like offering facilities for rent, than an illegal secondary energy market
I wonder if this applies to something like an off grid solar car charging setup.
I know the panel and weather requirements are hard to work around, maybe once salt or solid state batteries bring storage costs down we could have modular containers that could be dropped all through the desert or at gas stations and parking lots.
Off-grid part surely bumps the question into fruit stand territory (not a lawyer)
But decentralized energy storage is a foregone conclusion once you accept that the most abundant source of energy isn’t diurnal