摘要 |
Methods of allocating benefits received in response to generating energy within communities to community interests, including deploying energy generating equipment on properties of host community members, delivering delivered portions of the energy generated by the energy generating equipment to host community members, receiving community members, or power grids, measuring the delivered portions of the energy to produce measurements, receiving benefits associated with purchasing the energy generating equipment or generating energy with the energy generating equipment, the benefits defining amounts calculated based on the measurements, distributing portions of the benefit to community interests. In some examples, a community portion of the energy may be donated to community interest organizations. In some examples, benefits may define government subsidies. In some examples, marketing materials may be delivered from non-profit entities. In some examples, community members may select to participate in the community power programs on forms provided to the community members.
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