Oct 8, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
California has legalized plug-in “balcony” solar — small panels that feed a home through an ordinary wall socket — for its 39 million residents from January 2027. Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature on SB 868 sets a 1,200-watt ceiling, higher than...
Sep 26, 2026 | Battery Technology, Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
On 9 September 2026, Sunrun and Tesla dispatched 580 megawatts from roughly 140,000 home batteries into California’s grid during a heat wave — the largest residential virtual-power-plant event on record, and enough to match a mid-sized gas peaker. A month...
Aug 1, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
The share of new Californian home solar installations that came with a battery attached rose from 14% in 2023 to 57% in 2024, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Nothing about batteries changed in that window. What changed was that California stopped...
Jul 30, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
American battery-electric sales fell for the third consecutive quarter between April and June, but the rate of decline has almost halved since the market’s post-subsidy trough. The more consequential number sits one row down the spreadsheet: hybrids sold 592,018...
