Aug 25, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Saudi Arabia has signed $1.16 billion in contracts for 2,000 MW of grid batteries, each site holding four hours of storage, for a combined 8 GWh. The offtaker, the state’s Saudi Power Procurement Company, has agreed to pay for them for fifteen years whether they...
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 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...
