Simon,

Below is a link to the direction we are moving. To set up community ownership, there is one large hurdle to overcome. The hurdle is for the battery operator to become a generator (seller) and buyer in the energy market. Once you are a seller and buyer and you put your battery on a low voltage line, and you buy and sell. It is best to put the battery behind the meter on some large local solar area so that you buy your own solar most of the time and bypass the Energy Market. However, you can still buy from the grid and sell into the grid. You divide your profit between your investors and your consumer members. Your investors get their fixed rate, and your consumers get the rest. Members report their invoice amounts and divide them according to their payments. Alternatively, you could divide by the inverse of their payments. It is up to the Non-distributing Cooperative. Without government support, it is going to be hard to break into the real energy market, so the strategy is to lobby governments. Once we get permission, it is a software implementation of existing data.

https://kevin-34708.medium.com/community-ownership-of-community-batteries-2de959ffe00