Oct 21, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Data centers in the United States are building their own power plants, and roughly three-quarters of that on-site generation is natural gas. The obvious read is that gas has out-competed solar and batteries for the AI boom. It hasn’t. Gas is winning because it...
Oct 21, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
The United States installed a record 18.9 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter of 2026 — and 7% less power than it did a year earlier. Both figures come from the same Wood Mackenzie and American Clean Power report, and both are true, because they...
Oct 16, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
On 12 October, grid-scale batteries in New South Wales earned an estimated AU$5.63 million in about two hours as the wholesale electricity price spiked to AU$23,107 per megawatt-hour — a touch under the market ceiling. That is more than three-fifths of what every...
Oct 16, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles
Tesla’s new Roadster can, according to Tesla, hop over a moving Cybertruck, spin in mid-air and drive upside down along a ceiling-style ramp. It also promises to hit 60 mph in about a second. The unveiling on 15 October, outside Waco, Texas, was built to be...
Oct 15, 2026 | Battery Technology
A kilogram of diesel holds about 12,700 watt-hours of energy; a kilogram of lithium-ion battery pack holds around 200 — a gap of more than sixty to one. That figure is real, and it is nearly useless. A combustion engine throws away roughly 70 percent of its fuel as...
Oct 15, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
South Africa has told the market to build 4,600 MW of battery storage and 5,000 MW of new gas-fired power — and not one megawatt of new wind or solar. The Section 34 determination signed on 7 October 2026 by Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa...
