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P2P energy production and distribution

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. is there any possibility buy clomid online for low cost 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.

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

The new economy will be an economy of renewable resources, that's why access to land and soil will become one of the main sources of abundance again if it will be combined with access to new information technologies and information exchange, argues Michel Bauwens.

Walt Patterson – Infrastructure keeps the lights on

Walt Patterson proposes that we refocus so-called 'energy' activities to shift the balance, away from supply of fuels and electricity toward upgrading the user-technology and user-infrastructure that deliver the services we desire.

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

Eric Hunting proposes that a renewable energy infrastructure must integrate a very vast assortment of technologies and employ a new kind of 'grid' more akin to a computer network; bi-direction, variable load, with short term energy buffering and long-term seasonal storage.

Hermann Scheer – Towards a new energy revolution

Hermann Scheer states that renewable energies bring the opportunity of connecting directly the spaces of energy sources to the places of energy consumption and energy production. The logic underlying new energies is decentralisation.

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

In distributed production, argues George Papanikolaou, the largest part of the energy produced is intended for individual consumption, limiting the field of the market to exchanges of energy.

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

The viability of the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources mostly by the funding aid of the state recently overturned pessimistic predictions and over-anxious concerns regarding costs and self-sufficiency

Vijay Vaitheeswaran – Micropower and the coming energy revolution

Vijay Vaitheeswaran discusses the shift from an oil-based energy industry towards "smart micropower", a new paradigm involving a smart grid that integrates both decentralized and centralized power plants.

Michael Psalidas - Emerging tendencies in the production, distribution and use of electrical power

It is particularly telling to look at the history behind the adoption of alternating instead of direct current, a choice that reflects the contemporary existence of the centralised model of energy use a.gainst the model of distributed generation.

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

The request for “clean” electricity combined with the potentiality offered by p2p energy presents highly attractive prospects for Greece, argues Andrianos Tesas.

José Morales Barroso - P2P energy and the information grid

The rapid increase in energy consumption, says José Morales Barroso, makes advisable to invest strongly to expand the information and communications technologies.

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