Aug 14, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Wind
Build a 100 MW wind farm in PJM and the grid will pay you for about 34 MW of it. The turbines are real, the nameplate is real, and the other 66 MW is not a penalty or an accounting trick. It is the grid’s estimate of how much of your wind farm it can count on...
Aug 7, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Gas did not win the AI power race. In 2026 the US grid will add a record 86 GW of capacity, and 6.3 GW of it is natural gas — 7% of the total, behind solar, batteries and wind. The turbine order books everyone points to are real, but the first slots GE Vernova is...
Aug 2, 2026 | Hydro, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Global pumped storage capacity passed 201 GW in 2025, the first time it has cleared 200, on a record 11.7 GW of additions. There is 243 GW more under construction. China accounts for 218 GW of it — 90% of everything being built on the planet. North America, by...
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...
Aug 1, 2026 | Battery Technology
A commercial sodium-ion cell holds about 175 Wh/kg. Lithium iron phosphate holds about 205, and NMC about 255. That 30 Wh/kg gap between sodium and the cheapest lithium chemistry is the entire story of what sodium-ion is for, and it is not going to close, because the...
