Aug 18, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
In 2026 a US household that buys rooftop solar outright collects no federal tax credit. One that leases the same panels collects 30% — or 40% with a domestic-content bonus — because the leasing company claims a commercial credit Congress left standing. The residential...
Aug 16, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
The machine deciding how fast the United States can electrify is not a solar panel, a gas turbine or a battery. It is the large power transformer — a hundred-year-old block of steel and copper the country imports 82% of, now on a two-to-four-year wait, whose core...
Aug 14, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
Americans cannot buy a Chinese electric car. Waymo has imported more than 3,200 of them. Alphabet’s robotaxi arm has brought over 3,200 Zeekr CM1e vehicles through the Port of Los Angeles, more than 2,600 of them this year, at a tariff rate that roughly doubles...
Aug 13, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
China sold 1.56 million new energy vehicles in July, up 23.7% on a year earlier — and the home market shrank. Retail sales of NEVs fell 3.9%, the seventh straight month of decline, while exports jumped 145%. The growth everyone quotes is happening on the docks, not in...
Aug 10, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Wind
The United States is now spending public money to make its own electricity scarcer. On 6 August the Interior Department agreed to pay RWE $1.22 billion to surrender every offshore wind lease it holds — about 5.8 GW of planned capacity off three coasts. It was the...
Aug 3, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Norway installs roughly fourteen times more heat pumps per household than Britain does. Not because Norwegians care more about the climate, and not because Oslo writes bigger cheques. It is because in Norway a kilowatt-hour of electricity costs little more than a...
