Sep 12, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
States that voted for Trump in 2024 installed 71% of the new solar capacity the United States added in the first half of 2026, according to SEIA and Wood Mackenzie’s latest Solar Market Insight report. Texas alone built 3.44 gigawatts, more than the next two...
Sep 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Solar
Batteries did not unlock “anytime solar” in 2026. The Ember report that coined the phrase found that this year’s battery build could shift 34% of new daily solar generation into non-sunny hours — up from 18% last year. But that number is a...
Aug 27, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Solar, Wind
US wind and solar generated roughly 420 terawatt-hours in the first half of 2026 — about a fifth of the country’s electricity, and marginally more than its nuclear fleet’s 390 TWh, on Energy Information Administration figures. Their combined share climbed...
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 4, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Solar
A solar farm’s capture rate is the share of the average wholesale price it actually earns — and it falls as more solar gets built, because every panel generates in the same midday hours and floods the market it sells into. In spring 2026 Europe’s solar...
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
The largest study of agrivoltaics yet assembled — 320 experiments at 111 solar farms across 20 countries — found that of 264 crop-yield trials under panels, 59.8% produced lower yields than open field. Just 12.9% produced higher ones. Agrivoltaics is usually sold on...
