Oct 16, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
On 12 October, grid-scale batteries in New South Wales earned an estimated AU$5.63 million in about two hours as the wholesale electricity price spiked to AU$23,107 per megawatt-hour — a touch under the market ceiling. That is more than three-fifths of what every...
Oct 15, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
South Africa has told the market to build 4,600 MW of battery storage and 5,000 MW of new gas-fired power — and not one megawatt of new wind or solar. The Section 34 determination signed on 7 October 2026 by Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa...
Oct 10, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A coal plant cannot switch off when the sun comes out. Below roughly a third of its rated output the boiler runs too cool to burn cleanly and the turbine starts to complain, so the plant holds a floor of generation through the brightest, lowest-demand hours of the...
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...
