Nov 2, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
India’s rooftop solar reached 30.7 GW in July 2026, and almost none of it stores a single kilowatt-hour. A new analysis from the think tank Ember shows why: under the net-metering rules that power the boom, a home battery takes about nine years to pay for itself...
Oct 22, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
France has run up roughly 800 hours of negative or zero wholesale electricity prices in 2026, an all-time high — and already more than the whole of 2025 with a quarter of the year still to run. The government’s answer, fleshed out this month, is the right one....
Oct 10, 2026 | Battery Technology, Home Electrification, Renewable Energy
The median home battery installed in America in 2025 could push 11.4 kilowatts — nearly double the 6 kilowatts of a year earlier — while holding exactly the same 13.5 kilowatt-hours it held in 2024. Buyers did not ask for a bigger tank. They asked for a stronger...
Oct 10, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Germany has 1.31 million balcony-solar systems plugged into apartment sockets; the United States has almost none. The usual story is that America banned the things. It didn’t, quite — Utah legalised plug-in solar in May 2025 — and for most of the following year...
Oct 10, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Pakistan’s rooftop-solar boom gets told as a miracle. It is better read as the sound of a grid failing. In two years, households, farms and factories bolted an estimated 27 to 38 gigawatts of panels onto their own roofs — against roughly 6 GW the state actually...
Oct 8, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
California has legalized plug-in “balcony” solar — small panels that feed a home through an ordinary wall socket — for its 39 million residents from January 2027. Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature on SB 868 sets a 1,200-watt ceiling, higher than...
