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...
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...
Aug 22, 2026 | Hydro, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Batteries get every storage headline. Pumped hydro does the work. The world crossed 201 gigawatts of pumped storage in 2025, and by the IEA’s reckoning it holds almost all of the roughly 12 terawatt-hours of electricity the planet can store — a share...
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 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...
