Why would it need consumers? It can function fine without unless you are describing a capitalist economy. No need to balance the load either one nuclear power plant can sustain the region where all the power plant workers live with electricity.
Doesn’t have to be one person, it can be the majority workers in a centralised workplace deciding to stop exporting something to a certain region because they don’t like them for whatever reason.
Yes sure, but there will be centralised production and because of that implicitly a form of centralised power.
We need some baseload electricity production to support renewables doesn’t have to be nuclear, could be storing energy by filling a dammed lake or something along those lines.
Centralised production is the only option in some forms of production, is every town going to have it’s own steel mill or power plant?
If you build a classless organisation of production i think that will drastically reduce tension in society from a lack of class war and allow for development of community, however we shouldn’t be utopian and pretend like no friction between people will exist, it won’t all be all trust and care.
My point is you will end up in situations where one town or city might a nuclear reactor which powers the whole region. So then you end up with inbalances of power between locally controlled production.
How do you run centralised production without some form of central oversight? How do you decide which commune gets the power plant or local food distribution hub.