Sep 2, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A battery rated at 100 megawatts and a battery rated at 100 megawatt-hours are not the same battery, and mixing the two up is the most common error in energy storage. Power, measured in watts — kilowatts, megawatts, gigawatts — is how fast a battery can push...
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 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 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...
