Sep 2, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A battery rated at 100 megawatts and a battery rated at 100 megawatt-hours are not the same battery, and mixing the two up is the most common error in energy storage. Power, measured in watts — kilowatts, megawatts, gigawatts — is how fast a battery can push...
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 29, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Grid-scale batteries reached about 184 gigawatts of installed power worldwide by the end of July 2026, according to Rho Motion’s monthly deployment database — within a decade’s-worth of catch-up of pumped hydro, the water battery that took a century to...
Aug 22, 2026 | Hydro, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Batteries get every storage headline. Pumped hydro does the work. The world crossed 201 gigawatts of pumped storage in 2025, and by the IEA’s reckoning it holds almost all of the roughly 12 terawatt-hours of electricity the planet can store — a share...
Aug 21, 2026 | Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A behind-the-meter battery sits on the customer’s side of the electricity meter; a front-of-meter battery sits on the grid’s side. That is the entire distinction, and it decides everything that matters about a battery: who owns it, who tells it when to...
