Oct 5, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Japan has roughly 170 gigawatts of grid-scale batteries waiting to connect to its power grid and under one gigawatt actually connected. The queue is larger than the country’s entire peak electricity demand, and more than 99 percent of it has never produced a...
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
The largest study of agrivoltaics yet assembled — 320 experiments at 111 solar farms across 20 countries — found that of 264 crop-yield trials under panels, 59.8% produced lower yields than open field. Just 12.9% produced higher ones. Agrivoltaics is usually sold on...
Jul 31, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
A kei car — from kei jidōsha, “light vehicle” — is a uniquely Japanese class of tiny car defined by law rather than by taste: to qualify it must stay within 3,400 mm long, 1,480 mm wide and 2,000 mm tall, and in return it attracts lower tax, cheaper...
