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While I agree with you 100%, I think the real challenge is going to be people not wanting to pay for the invisible "availability and distribution" when they've
by SoftwareMaven 14y ago
While I agree with you 100%, I think the real challenge is going to be people not wanting to pay for the invisible "availability and distribution" when they've spent their entire life being trained they were paying for the electrons themselves.
If I were in that business, I would be putting a lot of marketing dollars into retraining people that the value of availability and distribution is a good percentage of the costs that they incur today, so when a customer starts generating their own electrons, they already know there is value in being attached to the network, value that corresponds with continued revenue for the company.
- Zigurd 14y agoThese are touchy subjects with vertically integrated monopolies. The equivalent to separating the value, and price, of transport from other services in telecom is called "structural separation." Telcos don't like it one bit. They prefer pricing and costs to be opaque. It may be that obfuscating costs and margins in consumer electric service is just as advantageous to the utilities.