Nov 2, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
India’s rooftop solar reached 30.7 GW in July 2026, and almost none of it stores a single kilowatt-hour. A new analysis from the think tank Ember shows why: under the net-metering rules that power the boom, a home battery takes about nine years to pay for itself...
Oct 10, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Pakistan’s rooftop-solar boom gets told as a miracle. It is better read as the sound of a grid failing. In two years, households, farms and factories bolted an estimated 27 to 38 gigawatts of panels onto their own roofs — against roughly 6 GW the state actually...
Sep 26, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Ember’s new report on the “electro-fortification” of Britain lands one striking claim above the rest: a home with rooftop solar, a battery, a heat pump and an electric car is up to ten times better protected from energy price shocks than a home...
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 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Solar supplied 25% of EU electricity in June 2026 — 52 TWh, the largest single source, ahead of nuclear, gas, wind, hydro and coal. In the same year, European solar farms captured the lowest share of the wholesale price ever recorded: an average of 38% in spring, down...
