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 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 30, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
CATL now sells lithium iron phosphate battery cells from a web page. Pick a 314 Ah cell, and the price is 0.423 yuan per watt-hour — about $63 per kilowatt-hour, no distributor, a 600-cell minimum, shipped in three to five days. More than 1,800 energy-storage firms...
Aug 26, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Wind
Australia connected a record 9.1 gigawatts of new clean generation and storage in the year to June 2026, more than double the year before. Just 0.2 GW of it was wind. That one number is why the country’s target of 82% renewable electricity by 2030 — a target...
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...
