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

does the amount of loss not increase with distance between these two?

My man. @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck

no, you don't comprehend; you just use

remember the internet being a bad thing?

@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck - Make sure you tell your therapist that the tazmanian devil is making your life a living nightmare, and you wish that cartoon character would shut the fuck up.

case and point

>Which cartoon character 😉

@Arthur Grayborn I don't need a therapist for YOUR problems

I **am** the therapist 😁

I'm autistic. Sperging puts me in my element.

the amount of loss is a function of the distance between generator and producer

Yes

Five hour internet argument?

Hells yes.

We know, Arthur

👏🏻

You're the perfect balance to MA.