Sep 26, 2026 | Battery Technology, Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
On 9 September 2026, Sunrun and Tesla dispatched 580 megawatts from roughly 140,000 home batteries into California’s grid during a heat wave — the largest residential virtual-power-plant event on record, and enough to match a mid-sized gas peaker. A month...
Aug 25, 2026 | Battery Technology, Home Electrification, Renewable Energy
The right size for a home battery is the amount of electricity you can actually shift from an expensive hour to a cheap one, or store through an outage — not the number on the installer’s quote. For most American homes in 2026 that is a smaller battery than the...
Aug 21, 2026 | Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A behind-the-meter battery sits on the customer’s side of the electricity meter; a front-of-meter battery sits on the grid’s side. That is the entire distinction, and it decides everything that matters about a battery: who owns it, who tells it when to...
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...
Aug 14, 2026 | Home Electrification, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Green Mountain Power spent this July doing something no utility did a decade ago: it dispatched 90 MW of home batteries during a heat wave, avoided the most expensive hour on the wholesale market, and saved every customer on its system $6 million — not just the ones...
