Oct 22, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Behind the meter, gas is winning the AI power race. The US grid will add a record 86 GW of capacity in 2026, and only 6.3 GW of it is natural gas — a result we read as gas losing back in August. That reading was right about the grid. It missed a second power system...
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...
Sep 14, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
China threw away an estimated 360 terawatt-hours of wind and solar in the first half of 2026 — more clean electricity than the entire country’s power demand grew by, and up 49% on a year earlier. In the same six months it switched on 30 gigawatts of new coal....
Jul 30, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Solar
The United States does not have a solar problem. It has a queue problem, and every headline celebrating record renewable output while data centre demand climbs is measuring the wrong thing. American solar farms posted their highest monthly output ever this summer, up...
