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 17, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
On 13 August, Noon Energy and Sabanci Renewables signed an agreement to build up to 1 GW — 100 GWh — of storage that discharges for more than 100 hours, and to aim all of it at AI data centers. This is not a bigger version of the battery already on the grid. The...
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 15, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A peaker plant is a power station built to sit idle. It earns its keep by running a few hours a year, on the evenings when demand spikes and everything cheaper is already maxed out — and that scarcity is exactly why it produces the most expensive electricity on the...
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 14, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Wind
Build a 100 MW wind farm in PJM and the grid will pay you for about 34 MW of it. The turbines are real, the nameplate is real, and the other 66 MW is not a penalty or an accounting trick. It is the grid’s estimate of how much of your wind farm it can count on...
