Oct 21, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Data centers in the United States are building their own power plants, and roughly three-quarters of that on-site generation is natural gas. The obvious read is that gas has out-competed solar and batteries for the AI boom. It hasn’t. Gas is winning because it...
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 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 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A 100-hour battery stores electricity for more than four days at a stretch and hands back only 35 to 50% of what you put in. That sounds broken. It is the entire point. The long-duration batteries now being built — Form Energy’s iron-air cells, Noon...
Sep 7, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
On 1 September China started taxing the lithium battery. A 2% consumption tax now sits on every lithium-ion cell made or sold in the country, and it rises to 4% next September. Sodium-ion and solid-state cells pay nothing until 2029. Most of the coverage filed this...
