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Table 4 Rules-in-use across legal institutions

From: Smart design rules for smart grids: analysing local smart grid development through an empirico-legal institutional lens

Across rules-in-use for one legal institution type (i.e. P2P energy supplier and tenants)

Rules-in-use

P2P energy supplier and tenants Bothoven-Noord

Boundary rule

Ability to contract, plus invitation by incumbent holders

Position rule

Ability to contract

Choice rule

For energy suppliers no legal ability space for dynamic pricing, limited liberty space as regards net metering

Information rule

Information available to both contracting parties

Aggregation rule

Mutual consent and mutual expression of the willingness to contract

Payoff rule

Decided freely by contractual parties, however limited legal ability space for energy suppliers

Scope rule

Derive from legal ability space of contractual parties