Category: Energy Storage

Democratic Win Set to Reshuffle U.S. Energy Policy: Capacity Ambitions, Manufacturing Realities, Cyber Risks, and Consumer Limits

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Blue states and Democratic-led policies continue to drive aggressive targets for wind, solar, and battery storage as part of broader clean-energy mandates. California aims for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045, New York for a zero-emissions grid by 2040, and similar Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) or Clean Electricity Standards (CES) in other Democratic-leaning states push high […]

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The UK’s Renewable Push Hits a Grid Bottleneck — and the Unreliable Scenario It Is Creating

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Britain has spent years accelerating wind and solar deployment under Clean Power 2030 and net-zero targets. The generation numbers look impressive on paper. The grid, however, was not built for them, and the mismatch is now producing record costs, regular curtailment of green power, emergency interventions, and growing questions about reliability. Felicity Bradstock’s October 25, […]

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Net Zero and Green Energy Is Entirely Reliant on Hardware from a Different Mindset: Pollution Shifted, Industry Hollowed Out

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Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) recently put the central contradiction of the Western Net Zero project in plain terms: the green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by the same industrial giant the West hoped to displace or outcompete. In a post that cuts to the heart of energy density, industrial policy, and geopolitical […]

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Is the U.S. Grid Open for Cyber Attacks? Chinese Inverters, Hidden Radios and a Years-Long Wait for Transformers

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Chinese-headquartered companies have delivered more than 70 GW of inverters to America’s commercial and utility solar plants, while each U.S. grid is designed to ride through the sudden loss of roughly 2.8 to 3.9 GW. Replacing one big transformer now takes about two and a half years. What has actually been found, what Washington has […]

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U.S. utilities and grid operators are urging households to prepare for tighter electricity supplies, possible rolling blackouts during extreme weather, and new risks from large loads like data centers

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Kind of Ironic that we lost power over the holiday and had a great dry run. Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. As we had company, a storm rolled in on us, and only 900 people in our county were without power. As you have heard me say, it is better to prepare […]

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IRENA’s 2026 “24/7 Renewables” report documents real hardware cost declines for solar, wind and four-hour batteries and introduces a useful project-level Firm LCOE metric.

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However, it only captures part of the story. It does not fully capture system-level costs, weather extremes in places like Germany, consumer price outcomes in the West, or end-of-life realities. Those gaps matter when the claim is that firm renewables are already cheaper than new fossil generation and insulated from fuel shocks. Renewable Wind, Solar, […]

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