Show HN: Planetary Energy Routing Protocol (PERP)

WVGlobal published the Planetary Energy Routing Protocol (PERP) to GitHub on August 25, 2026, per the Show HN post by the project's author. The submission describes an open protocol designed to balance global energy supply and demand in real time.

According to the GitHub repository, PERP frames global climate stabilization as a "system-wide optimization problem." The core idea is to connect emerging Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) arrays with local terrestrial microgrids into what the project describes as "a single, self-balancing energy pool," operating without a centralized corporate or government authority controlling the network.

The project is conceptual and early-stage. At the time of posting, the HN submission had received 1 point and zero comments. WVGlobal also links to a live interactive demo — described as a "Space Laser Grid Simulation" — hosted on CodePen, which appears to be the primary tangible artifact accompanying the protocol specification.

No funding, team size, founding date, or commercial partnerships are mentioned in the source material. The project appears to be an individual or small-group open-source effort rather than a funded startup. No prior versions or related publications are cited in the available sources.

Space-based solar power has attracted growing research interest from government agencies and defense-adjacent research bodies in recent years, but commercial SBSP remains pre-deployment globally. The PERP proposal sits at the intersection of SBSP, microgrid coordination, and decentralized network design — a combination that has not yet produced a widely adopted standards body or protocol, based on the sources available here. No competing protocols or direct analogues are named in the submission.

The GitHub repository is publicly accessible; no roadmap, contributor guidelines, or future milestones are described in the source material beyond the existence of the simulation demo.