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...
Oct 10, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A coal plant cannot switch off when the sun comes out. Below roughly a third of its rated output the boiler runs too cool to burn cleanly and the turbine starts to complain, so the plant holds a floor of generation through the brightest, lowest-demand hours of the...
Oct 10, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Germany has 1.31 million balcony-solar systems plugged into apartment sockets; the United States has almost none. The usual story is that America banned the things. It didn’t, quite — Utah legalised plug-in solar in May 2025 — and for most of the following year...
Oct 10, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Pakistan’s rooftop-solar boom gets told as a miracle. It is better read as the sound of a grid failing. In two years, households, farms and factories bolted an estimated 27 to 38 gigawatts of panels onto their own roofs — against roughly 6 GW the state actually...
Oct 8, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
California has legalized plug-in “balcony” solar — small panels that feed a home through an ordinary wall socket — for its 39 million residents from January 2027. Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature on SB 868 sets a 1,200-watt ceiling, higher than...
Oct 5, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Japan has roughly 170 gigawatts of grid-scale batteries waiting to connect to its power grid and under one gigawatt actually connected. The queue is larger than the country’s entire peak electricity demand, and more than 99 percent of it has never produced a...
