Many innovators are suggesting implementing new local energy networks called microgrids to improve this ability to pool and share locally generated electricity.
Besides the inevitable headaches that would come from trying to obtain permits to install a 25-story machine with blades that stretch 250 feet, such a turbine would generate more electricity than a typical store needs, Pool says.
Even the famously stunning Blue Lagoon, just outside of Reykjavik, is a manmade pool originally built to hold wastewater from the adjacent geothermal electricity plant.
RECs, the two Scottish power companies, the Pool (a club of companies which runs the wholesale electricity market) and would-be new suppliers all have to be able to converse.
She said that gas and electricity companies should be forced to sell the energy they generate into a pool, in order to open up the market and ensure fairer consumer prices.