# Who is paid when a household's battery serves the grid?

ID: compensation-question · question · proposal · updated 2026-09-07
Tags: consent, economics, open problem

If the node is the household's comfort and the grid's resource at once, the value it creates has at least three claimants: the occupant, the building owner and the operator of the federation. The split is undecided.

A federation that quietly keeps the value will not keep its participants. A federation that gives it all away cannot fund itself. The Commons proposes publishing the compensation rule before the first dispatch, and reporting the distribution afterwards, so that the arrangement can be judged by the people inside it.

## Counterargument
The benefit may disappear when tested against a simpler alternative or under adverse operating conditions.

## Next test
Publish a bounded experiment, its baseline, its failure criteria and the observed outcome.

## Sources
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## Links
- depends-on → comfort-first