Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading — Share Power with People You Choose | Jousto
Peer-to-Peer

Trade energy with people you choose

With LocalVolts, you can buy and sell energy directly with other customers. Jousto sets up the trades for you — so your excess solar helps family, friends or your favourite local business.

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Peer-to-Peer energy trading — Jousto Energy

How peer-to-peer energy trading works

Instead of sending all your excess to the grid at a flat feed-in rate, you can set a mutually agreed price with another LocalVolts customer and trade directly. Jousto helps you configure the relationships, pricing and automations so it “just works.”

P2P is compatible with energy arbitrage strategies and smart curtailment when prices go negative. For live market context, see the NEM Spot Price.

Popular ways our clients trade

Home ↔ Holiday home

Send weekday surplus to your holiday place so hot water’s ready and fridges stay cold before you arrive.

Office ↔ Home

Export from a sunny office roof to offset power at home (or vice-versa when staff are remote).

Family home ↔ Kids’ share house

Gift or sell at a friendly price — help them run heat pump hot water and charge e-bikes cheaply.

Any home ↔ A business

Support your local. A pub could even swap credit or perks (like beer) for your excess solar by agreeing a P2P price.

Apartments & strata

Trade within a building community to share rooftop solar benefits more fairly.

SMEs & multi-site groups

Shift value across sites (e.g., cafe ↔ roastery) and stabilise bills with targeted P2P rates.

What Jousto sets up for you

Trading relationships & pricing

We help define counterparties, set buy/sell prices, and handle the LocalVolts setup so both sides see clear value.

  • Fixed P2P rates or price formulas
  • Limits, schedules & fairness rules
  • Onboarding for all participants

Automation with the Jousto Hub

Use the Jousto Energy Hub to align charging, hot water and curtailment with your P2P deals — and fall back to TOU when needed.

Includes free Jousto Home Assistant Genius blueprints for wholesale & P2P scenarios.

Start your peer-to-peer trading setup

Tell us who you’d like to trade with and how you want it to work. We’ll review and get back to you with next steps.

Want wholesale context and automations?

Explore NEM Spot Prices and Energy Arbitrage — then automate it all with the Jousto Hub.