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The BrightVolt Take: Europe’s Battery Bet Sold for Scrap

The BrightVolt Take: Europe’s Battery Bet Sold for Scrap

Aug 28, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations

Lyten, a Silicon Valley startup that has never shipped a battery cell at gigawatt scale, has agreed to buy Norway’s bankrupt Morrow Batteries — its sixth distressed European battery asset in fourteen months. Morrow burned through NOK 5.1 billion, roughly €468...
The BrightVolt Take: Australia’s Wind Gap Is the Real Story

The BrightVolt Take: Australia’s Wind Gap Is the Real Story

Aug 26, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Wind

Australia connected a record 9.1 gigawatts of new clean generation and storage in the year to June 2026, more than double the year before. Just 0.2 GW of it was wind. That one number is why the country’s target of 82% renewable electricity by 2030 — a target...
Saudi Arabia’s 8 GWh Battery Buy Is an Oil-Export Play

Saudi Arabia’s 8 GWh Battery Buy Is an Oil-Export Play

Aug 25, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids

Saudi Arabia has signed $1.16 billion in contracts for 2,000 MW of grid batteries, each site holding four hours of storage, for a combined 8 GWh. The offtaker, the state’s Saudi Power Procurement Company, has agreed to pay for them for fifteen years whether they...
The BrightVolt Take: Negative Bidding Broke Offshore Wind

The BrightVolt Take: Negative Bidding Broke Offshore Wind

Aug 24, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Wind

In 2023 the German state sold four patches of North Sea and Baltic seabed to BP and TotalEnergies for €12.6 billion, and called it proof that offshore wind had outgrown subsidy. In August 2025 the same kind of auction drew zero bids. The zero-subsidy era did not...
The BrightVolt Take: Solar’s Record Half Is Already the Past

The BrightVolt Take: Solar’s Record Half Is Already the Past

Aug 22, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

In the first half of 2026, US wind and solar generated about 420 terawatt-hours — 20% of the country’s electricity, up from 18.6% a year earlier — and passed both coal and nuclear for the first time in a comparable six months, according to federal generation...
US-Made LFP Batteries Arrive as the Subsidies Vanish

US-Made LFP Batteries Arrive as the Subsidies Vanish

Aug 21, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations

On 18 August, LG Energy Solution started production at an all-new $2 billion plant in Lansing, Michigan, rated at more than 35 GWh of cells a year. Paired with its Holland plant up the road, the company now anchors more than 50 GWh of North American lithium iron...
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