Oct 4, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
The US House voted 417-3 to make large data centers pay the full cost of the electricity grid they demand. Two weeks later, on September 30, the Senate let the bill die on a 57-43 procedural vote. Neither result changes a single household’s power bill — because...
Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A demand charge is the part of a commercial electricity bill set by the single highest 15-minute burst of power a building draws in a month — not by how much electricity it uses over that month. It is billed in dollars per kilowatt of that peak, and for most medium...
Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
For about fifteen years the cost of new solar and wind electricity fell almost every year. In 2025 it rose. BloombergNEF puts its global benchmark for utility solar up 6% and offshore wind up 12% over the year, and Lazard has the levelized cost of US solar up 18%. The...
Sep 29, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
China launched more than 600 new vehicle models in the first half of 2026 — close to four a day — and the man whose company builds the batteries in a third of them thinks that is the problem. At the World Power Battery Conference in Yibin in early September, CATL...
Sep 28, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
From October 1, every new solar panel sold in Alberta carries a flat C$14 environmental fee, and sending a dead panel to landfill becomes illegal. It is the first stewardship scheme of its kind in Canada, and the industry that lobbied for years to be taken seriously...
Sep 26, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Ember’s new report on the “electro-fortification” of Britain lands one striking claim above the rest: a home with rooftop solar, a battery, a heat pump and an electric car is up to ten times better protected from energy price shocks than a home...
