If they don't have enough to meet the order, then they buy from another company.

...and if that company doesn't have enough to fill the order, THEY buy from another company.

Thus creating the system we have now, except it's possibly to breakup the monopolies and have actual competition.

no, you are assuming power is purchased discretely BEFORE consumption and it can be done ad-hoc

that arrangement is made before hand and whatever happens, happens

So you're saying you can't have electric meters at the connections between companies, where the balance of power flow determines who charges who how much for a certain number of MW/h.

that isn't what you said before though

It kind of is.

Same system they use for selling to residential homes.

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in order to purchase from another company, that competitor must have a way to feed YOUR customers

It's not like I'm calling up the electric company right now, and negotiating a price for a certain number of KW over the next five hours because I'm not done arguing with a fucking jackass on the internet.

I pull a certain amount of juice, and I get billed for however much I pull.

but before, you said each company would own the specific line

or portion of the grid

how does THEIR power, reach YOUR customers and how do you limit this ONLY to what is required

Reminder, we do GENUINELY believe that MA has schizophrenia.

That competitor doesn't need a direct line to your customer's homes.

They just need a hookup to your own electric grid, with a meter that measures the flow of electricity and companies get billed accordingly. Same rate that residential customers pay.

Unironically.

If company A charges a certain price, and company B charges a certain price, one of those companies gets billed by the other based on the flow of electricity and the net-contributor's price to residential consumers.

how does their power get onto your grid while also supplying THEIR gird id these are two distinctly seprate grids with seperate ownership

Same way we move power from Chicago to Oklahoma City.

a company cannot give you or sell you what they do not have

Oklahoma Gas and Electric buys power from other states all the time. We also sell to other states all the time.

Yeah, and if they don't have it they buy it from someone else.

we don't move power chicago to oklahoma

If nobody has it, then some asshole with one of those expensive gas generators gets to make a killing for a little while.

that is an illusion; 400mi or so

otherwise LOSES due to heat

Losses are only 2% of total electric production under the current system.

the power closest to the customer is what in actuallity is consumed

it is just a 'zero sum' transaction

Yeah, because we shave pennies out of every deal.

woah, no way; 2% of the GENRATION

not DISTRIBUTION

these are SEPERATE

"The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) losses average about 5% of the electricity that is transmitted and distributed annually in the United States."

Big woop.

and distribution loses vary based on weather, humidity, condition of the line, votage potentional etc

think about that statement for a moment before throwing it up there

Centralized systems are a bad idea. They should not exist. End of story.

If you haven't built your system in a decentralized fashion then you're doing it wrong.

is the distance the same between every generatior and customer?

@Weez I'm not sure about **everybody**....but you and I sure do