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Interconnection Queues: The Clean-Energy Bottleneck

Interconnection Queues: The Clean-Energy Bottleneck

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...
The BrightVolt Take: Australia’s Wind Gap Is the Real Story

The BrightVolt Take: Australia’s Wind Gap Is the Real Story

Aug 26, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Wind

Australia connected a record 9.1 gigawatts of new clean generation and storage in the year to June 2026, more than double the year before. Just 0.2 GW of it was wind. That one number is why the country’s target of 82% renewable electricity by 2030 — a target...
The BrightVolt Take: The Transformer Is the Real Bottleneck

The BrightVolt Take: The Transformer Is the Real Bottleneck

Aug 16, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids

The machine deciding how fast the United States can electrify is not a solar panel, a gas turbine or a battery. It is the large power transformer — a hundred-year-old block of steel and copper the country imports 82% of, now on a two-to-four-year wait, whose core...
The BrightVolt Take: Solar Isn’t the Bottleneck. The Queue Is.

The BrightVolt Take: Solar Isn’t the Bottleneck. The Queue Is.

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...