Will your platform be focused only on small enterprises or will you be able to provide a large factory with the necessary volume of energy?
In order to answer this, I’ll have to introduce our franchise models:
There are two proposed franchise models. As a Type A “Franchise Owner of a Power Retail Company” .
Type B, or option 2, would be – Reselling / Brokering.
Restart Energy has two choices:
1. To build its own infrastructure from the company’s funds and supply power with the assistance of Type B franchise (Reseller / Broker).
2. To contact a local type A Franchise, in this case Restart Energy would work together with the Master-Franchisee to help set-up his own power retail company, and the Master-Franchisee would be the one to enter into a new market and establish his business. The Master-Franchisee would take on all risk and expenses to create a market, and Restart Energy would provide technical, infrastructural, process automation, marketing and sales support. The Master-Franchisee would need to provide the financial and management capacity for setting up a power retail company.
For a Type A franchise there are several criteria to be met besides owning a minimum amount of tokens, such as a minimum capital and marketing budget that we will discuss case by case depending on the country and market size. In deregulated energy markets, producers, transport company, distribution companies and suppliers are unbundled so each separate entity has a certain role in the system. The distribution companies operate the medium and low voltage network and charge a regulated tariff to energy suppliers that buy energy from the producers, pass it to the grid and sell it to end consumers. In deregulated energy markets, consumers can change their supplier for free without changing the grid or the meters (that belong to the distribution company not to the current supplier).