Aug 25, 2026 | Battery Technology, Home Electrification, Renewable Energy
The right size for a home battery is the amount of electricity you can actually shift from an expensive hour to a cheap one, or store through an outage — not the number on the installer’s quote. For most American homes in 2026 that is a smaller battery than the...
Aug 21, 2026 | Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A behind-the-meter battery sits on the customer’s side of the electricity meter; a front-of-meter battery sits on the grid’s side. That is the entire distinction, and it decides everything that matters about a battery: who owns it, who tells it when to...
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 14, 2026 | Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Green Mountain Power spent this July doing something no utility did a decade ago: it dispatched 90 MW of home batteries during a heat wave, avoided the most expensive hour on the wholesale market, and saved every customer on its system $6 million — not just the ones...
Aug 3, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Norway installs roughly fourteen times more heat pumps per household than Britain does. Not because Norwegians care more about the climate, and not because Oslo writes bigger cheques. It is because in Norway a kilowatt-hour of electricity costs little more than a...
