In regards to (2), names of necessary things on the ecosystem If you are an an electric deregulated market: - Utility commission (PUC, etc.). They will typica

In regards to (2), names of necessary things on the ecosystem If you are an an electric deregulated market: - Utility commission (PUC, etc.). They will typically have a lot of sway in your day to day. - Retail Electric Providers: companies that operate as hedge funds and try to buy from you cheaply and sell to customers on a spread - Aggregators: aggregate customers that purchase energy as a bloc - Transmission & Distribution: the wires folks - Power market: your area will vary, but this is an open market where you can sell. Typically you'll sell forward or futures contracts of a sort. There is often a day-ahead market and a real time market as well to help plug any gaps. A power provider that can spin up quickly does well here. Someone with a bunch of airplane turbines can also help here when supply > demand if they wire their turbines up (turbine = generators, backwards). There is a lot of creative financial focus in this space since the returns are more apparent than in power generation