Nov 2, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
India’s rooftop solar reached 30.7 GW in July 2026, and almost none of it stores a single kilowatt-hour. A new analysis from the think tank Ember shows why: under the net-metering rules that power the boom, a home battery takes about nine years to pay for itself...
Nov 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Australia has raised the ceiling on its upfront rooftop-solar rebate tenfold, from 100 kilowatts to one megawatt, as of 1 October 2026. The change extends a roughly 20% discount — about A$68,000 off a 250 kW system — to the commercial and industrial roofs that hold an...
Oct 10, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Pakistan’s rooftop-solar boom gets told as a miracle. It is better read as the sound of a grid failing. In two years, households, farms and factories bolted an estimated 27 to 38 gigawatts of panels onto their own roofs — against roughly 6 GW the state actually...
Sep 26, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Ember’s new report on the “electro-fortification” of Britain lands one striking claim above the rest: a home with rooftop solar, a battery, a heat pump and an electric car is up to ten times better protected from energy price shocks than a home...
Aug 19, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Australia has installed more than 507,000 subsidised home batteries in the thirteen months since it switched on a national rebate, crossing half a million in mid-August 2026 and parking roughly 14 GWh of storage behind household meters. The United States spent the...
