Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
For about fifteen years the cost of new solar and wind electricity fell almost every year. In 2025 it rose. BloombergNEF puts its global benchmark for utility solar up 6% and offshore wind up 12% over the year, and Lazard has the levelized cost of US solar up 18%. The...
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...
