You can do that under a private model.

Just require that a power company create transfer centers linking to all of their competitors, and dictate that they have to sell power to rival companies at or below the same rate they sell to their own customers.

'dictate that they have to sell power...' this doesn't sound to private

Only if it's in stock, and at the same rate you charge individual customers.

If you charge residential homes a certain rate per KW/h, then you have to charge rival companies the same rate.

but that is a subsidy

no different than gov

They won't turn a profit buying from you and selling to their own customers, but it'll keep their grid from collapsing and causing a major blackout.

Not really. Just a mandate of service, which would in effect prevent blackouts and brownouts without government ownership or a monopoly, or any kind of national grid.

and under said system, any company can discretely lower capacity and earm more for their power

Only by charging their customers more. Power is sold as power is requested.

it would more likely encourage blackouts

Holy shit you still on about this

because it would penalize companies with extra capacity

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How the fuck would it do that?

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If you have extra capacity, that regulation ensures that you make the same profit selling to rival companies that you get from selling to your own customers.

extra capacity is the only thing that can prevent the blackout short of sheding a portion of the load intentionally

If you have power to spare, then you should be eager to sell that shit because you'll make money from it.

A mandate-to-sell-if-available simply ensures that a big company can't willfully allow a blackout to occur in a rival company's lines if they have the power to stop it from happening.

you do realize that the removal and addition of capacity to a distribution bus is automatic based on the voltage level?

remember, blackouts are inconviences

brown outs destroy equipment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOfffyn4SWI

there is no, "shit voltage is dropping on the bus, call our rival and see what they will charge"

You're assuming that you can't have an algorithm that automatically makes the purchase.

there is just, "oh look, GEN10-15 just started and are paralleling to thebus... must be a demand spike"

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.

guys there is currently a go fund me going on for a bavarian guy that is suing youtube because they bann him for posting old marching music because of "hate speech" would be nice if you would take a look at it. https://www.gofundme.com/f/drludwig?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

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