Oct 21, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
The United States installed a record 18.9 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter of 2026 — and 7% less power than it did a year earlier. Both figures come from the same Wood Mackenzie and American Clean Power report, and both are true, because they...
Oct 21, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Load factor is your average electricity demand divided by your peak demand over a period — a number between zero and one. A 24/7 data centre runs about 0.88; a restaurant about 0.32. It is the single figure that predicts how much of an electricity bill is demand...
Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A demand charge is the part of a commercial electricity bill set by the single highest 15-minute burst of power a building draws in a month — not by how much electricity it uses over that month. It is billed in dollars per kilowatt of that peak, and for most medium...
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 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
In the United States the wait to plug a power plant into the grid is now longer than the time it takes to build one. Roughly 2,000 gigawatts of generation and storage — more than the entire installed US power fleet — sits in interconnection queues, and of every...
