Aug 28, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A grid-following inverter can only push power into a grid that already exists. A grid-forming inverter can build the grid — set its voltage and frequency itself, the way a spinning generator does. That one distinction decides whether solar panels and batteries can...
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 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...
