Aug 20, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Grid-forming batteries can now do the one job the power system long insisted only spinning steel could: hold the grid’s frequency steady when a big generator trips or the wind drops. Germany started paying for it in January. China switched on four gigawatt-hours...
Aug 19, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Australia has installed more than 507,000 subsidised home batteries in the thirteen months since it switched on a national rebate, crossing half a million in mid-August 2026 and parking roughly 14 GWh of storage behind household meters. The United States spent the...
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...
