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 5, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Japan has roughly 170 gigawatts of grid-scale batteries waiting to connect to its power grid and under one gigawatt actually connected. The queue is larger than the country’s entire peak electricity demand, and more than 99 percent of it has never produced a...
Oct 4, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
The US House voted 417-3 to make large data centers pay the full cost of the electricity grid they demand. Two weeks later, on September 30, the Senate let the bill die on a 57-43 procedural vote. Neither result changes a single household’s power bill — because...
Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A demand charge is the part of a commercial electricity bill set by the single highest 15-minute burst of power a building draws in a month — not by how much electricity it uses over that month. It is billed in dollars per kilowatt of that peak, and for most medium...
