Oct 22, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
France has run up roughly 800 hours of negative or zero wholesale electricity prices in 2026, an all-time high — and already more than the whole of 2025 with a quarter of the year still to run. The government’s answer, fleshed out this month, is the right one....
Sep 24, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Curtailment is a power grid deliberately throwing away electricity it could have used — almost always wind or solar, almost always free at the point of generation. In the first half of 2026, China alone spilled an estimated 360 terawatt-hours of clean power, more than...
Sep 18, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Solar
A land equivalent ratio, or LER, measures whether doing two things on one piece of land beats doing each on its own. In agrivoltaics — solar panels raised over a working field — an LER of 1.6 means you would need 1.6 hectares of single-use land, one growing the crop...
Sep 15, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
The levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, is a single number: a power plant’s total lifetime cost divided by the total electricity it produces over its life, usually quoted in dollars per megawatt-hour. It is the most-cited figure in energy — and the most misused....
Sep 12, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
States that voted for Trump in 2024 installed 71% of the new solar capacity the United States added in the first half of 2026, according to SEIA and Wood Mackenzie’s latest Solar Market Insight report. Texas alone built 3.44 gigawatts, more than the next two...
