Sep 16, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Almost every transformer on the power grid — the humming boxes that step voltage up at a power plant and back down on your street — is built around a core of grain-oriented electrical steel. In the United States, exactly one mill still makes it. That single dependency...
Sep 15, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
The levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, is a single number: a power plant’s total lifetime cost divided by the total electricity it produces over its life, usually quoted in dollars per megawatt-hour. It is the most-cited figure in energy — and the most misused....
Sep 14, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
China’s new plan for its car industry sets one headline target: new-energy vehicles should reach 70% of passenger-car sales by 2030. The market already passed 65% in August. Five points over five years, against a number the market is brushing this year — that...
Sep 14, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
China threw away an estimated 360 terawatt-hours of wind and solar in the first half of 2026 — more clean electricity than the entire country’s power demand grew by, and up 49% on a year earlier. In the same six months it switched on 30 gigawatts of new coal....
Sep 12, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
States that voted for Trump in 2024 installed 71% of the new solar capacity the United States added in the first half of 2026, according to SEIA and Wood Mackenzie’s latest Solar Market Insight report. Texas alone built 3.44 gigawatts, more than the next two...
Sep 9, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
A wind farm burns no fuel, so almost everything it will ever cost is spent before it sends out a single kilowatt-hour — and most of that money is borrowed. This is why the cost of capital, not the turbine, sets the price of clean power. For a utility-scale solar...
