Oct 15, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
South Africa has told the market to build 4,600 MW of battery storage and 5,000 MW of new gas-fired power — and not one megawatt of new wind or solar. The Section 34 determination signed on 7 October 2026 by Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa...
Oct 10, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A coal plant cannot switch off when the sun comes out. Below roughly a third of its rated output the boiler runs too cool to burn cleanly and the turbine starts to complain, so the plant holds a floor of generation through the brightest, lowest-demand hours of the...
Sep 24, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Curtailment is a power grid deliberately throwing away electricity it could have used — almost always wind or solar, almost always free at the point of generation. In the first half of 2026, China alone spilled an estimated 360 terawatt-hours of clean power, more than...
Sep 14, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
China threw away an estimated 360 terawatt-hours of wind and solar in the first half of 2026 — more clean electricity than the entire country’s power demand grew by, and up 49% on a year earlier. In the same six months it switched on 30 gigawatts of new coal....
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Coal supplied 49.7% of China’s electricity in the first half of 2026 — the first half-year on record below half. China’s National Energy Administration announced the figure on 30 July, alongside renewables at 41.2% and coal generation of 2.5 trillion kWh....
