Energy storage deployment is set for another record in 2026 by adding 188 gigawatts (GW) or 535 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy storage projects, 62% of which are installed in China, the US […]
The capacity market crisis is a design problem, not a verdict on competition
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Frank Willey is an assistant director and Stephen Greene is a nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy […]
Summer-peaking states could save big with heat pumps, report says
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. There is sufficient available capacity on the U.S. electric grid for 86 million additional home heat pumps to operate — […]
Gas Network Retirement Is Becoming A Real Utility Planning Tool
Gas utilities have a structural problem in an electrifying economy. Customers can stop using gas one building at a time, while most of the physical network remains in service until enough neighboring […]
One of Australia’s biggest pumped hydro projects cancelled due to “economic and timing challenges”
One of the largest pumped hydro schemes planned for Australia has been pulled by its developer due to rising costs and delays. The post One of Australia’s biggest pumped hydro projects cancelled […]
Record Fuel Prices Accelerate Europe’s EV Sales
Record-high gasoline and diesel prices across Europe are accelerating a shift toward electric vehicles and hybrids while new registrations of conventional cars continue to plummet by double digits in key markets. Total […]
Grid Constraints Curtailed 119 GW of Renewables in India in September
Grid, flexibility, and transmission constraints amid limited battery storage forced India to curtail as much as 118.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power capacity in September, data by India’s JMK Research […]
Jigar Shah blames the wrong target for rising electricity bills
Guy Caruso is a retired administrator for the Energy Information Administration. He was formerly with CSIS. With over forty years in energy markets, policy and security, including as administrator of the U.S. […]
Why Fossil Fuel Demand Can Rise Even as Clean Energy Wins Terrain
French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has offered energy-transition skeptics an appealing historical argument. In More and More and More, he argues that humanity has never really moved from one energy source to another. […]
Home battery boom and hours of free power are re-shaping how consumers use the grid
Consumers are changing the way they use the grid, with the Solar Sharer causing a demand spike in middle of the day, and home batteries flatting evening peaks. The post Home battery […]
