The Peer-to Peer Power economy now is extended to include:
1. electricity
2. the internet
3. spectrum

and I expect we will add clean water and waste water management as well. Flushing toilets with drinking water and allowing expensively heated water to escape down the drain simply no longer make any sense.

Recommendations of the government working group

STATE GOVERNMENT

Establish a rule to permit cooperative sharing of power over property lines. This should be made legal and incentivized, so that, for example, businesses and homes could cooperatively operate a combined heat and power plant, sharing both heat and electricity;

Permit net metering of all types of renewable energy, including biomass fueled CHP;

Expand the Renewable Energy Portfolio standard to include thermal energy;

Increase caps on the size of systems that can be net metered;

Establish as a goal the encouragement of highly efficient power production: incentivize highly efficient energy and penalize electricity that is produced inefficiently;

Recognize that pellets are an important fuel source and equalize subsidies for all kinds of renewable energy fuels;

Provide tax credits and other incentives for replacement of fossil fueled heating systems by pellet fuled systems (STATE and FEDERAL).

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Purchase pellet fueled heating/CHP systems for public buildings;

Divert cardboard and other clean fiber sources from the waste stream to pelleting facilities;

Inventory local fibersheds and set clear policies for sustainable management of these fibersheds for current and future generations;

Prepare our workforce for the transition to bioenergy by including training for bioenergy production and systems in school curricula.