[fiberhood]

You can sign up by becoming a member of the Fiberhood cooperative for free. Send an email to Fiberhood at icloud dot com. We must have your address and map location link or Google map address code so we can draw maps and make a website for your neighborhood to sign up and form an Enernet.

We will do a small survey and put up a detailed map of your neighborhood (like openstreetmap, see the slide in this talk [1]). We hand out door to door flyers and organise a weekend barbeque neighborhood party where everyone can come see how the cable between neighbours goes roof-to-roof, window-to-window or garden-to-garden between power routers. See our cost price bifacial solar panels and the large batteries.

We find that within a few weeks a few hundred people signed up for the cooperative and we start installing the first 10 houses. Most people invest in solar panels and batteries at wholesale prices installed by volunteers. Others get a loan to pay for this. You wind up getting payed for the panels you bought or paying around 1 dollar cent per kWh, saving a few thousand dollars per years for decades.

In the US the Rocky Mountain Institute and its founder Amory Lovins describes this as 'grid defection' and it happens on a large scale now.

Fiberhood has cooperatives forming all around the world, both rural and urban: Ukraine, Peru (near Iquitos by the Indian tribe on the Amazon River Bank, Southern Spain, Slovenia, Finland, The Netherlands, Australia.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI&t=5574s

[morphle]

The Fiberhood planner maps are in the first slides in the first minute of the video. We used to have an interactive zooming map of Fiberhoods for every house in the Netherlands online but now we only have them available for Fiberhood members because of privacy rules. On the maps you can see where the batteries, solar panels and power routers are located in a Fiberhood version of Google Streetview.

[toomuchtodo]

Sounds like Fiberhood is adjacent to https://solarunitedneighbors.org/ ?

[morphle]

Yes and no, not really. There are many smart grids and more not-so smart grids around the world, but only a few are non-commercial or owned by the members.

Fiberhood is unique in that we have our own Enernet power routers (a software controlled multi-port bidirectional AC-DC-DC inverter peer to peer network) that can share large amounts of DC current, has special power aggregation to enable megawatt EV chargers in every house, battery nano-inverters that make cheap batteries last up to 20000 charge/discharge cycles, integrate (free) discarded solar panels and has a range of software defined networking options including 4 x 25 Gbps internet ports per house. Most smart grids are just a different meter and payment scheme, not a radical rewiring of the entire electricity system in the neighborhood without a commercial company or government controlling what citizens pay. Other smart grids raise the cost of grid defection, Fiberhood tech makes it possible to have abundant redundant solar energy at its cost price $0.01 per kWh, many times cheaper than national AC grid pricing anywhere in the world. The tech was made to prevent making money on energy but incentivize solving the climate crises by making Solar by far the cheapest option. Stop almost all carbon and methane greenhouse gas emissions by going 100% solar.

[goobatrooba]

Hi, I tried to find more details of this initiative which sounds quite interesting (I'm living in Belgium) but it seems there is no website or summary info available - is the only way to learn more about the model a 4h lecture recording? Would you have any kind of package or info you can share on how this really works, wha the financing model is, etc?

Thank you!

[fiberhood]

We used to have a public website but Enernet is a technical and political solution for whole communities, companies and factories, not for single individuals.

Please send an email to Fiberhood at icloud dot com with the location of the proposed Enernet smart grid and we'll find out if there is enough interest in your neigborhood (around 10 participants) to set it up.

Enernet is a high tech solution for getting the best ,cheapest, sustainable energy, internet, mobile phone, transport (cars, busses, trucks) and housing in a neighborhood for people and companies.

If you wire up all buildings with fiber and cables to each other you can replace the national grid, its laws, taxes and always high prices with a solar energy system at cost price, saving several thousand euro's per house per year. Instead we put an abundance of solar cells up and install insulation, thermal and electrical storage tailored to the local situation. We fund it from the large savings we create. The participants will decide what will be installed, so every Enernet smart grid is different. Our Fiberhood coop has special electronics that make batteries a lot cheaper and safer and replace the National AC grid with a DC grid that has almost no transmission losses. We also distribute 25 Gbps internet and establish a small datacenter to heat water cheaply with the waste heat. The savings from all your utility bills pay for the installation and upkeep of the Enernet network.

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