August 13

Power grids are losing something that once went largely unnoticed: the physical inertia of large spinning turbines. For decades, that rotational mass acted as a natural buffer against sudden frequency swings. As coal and gas plants are decommissioned, the buffer shrinks — and grids become markedly more sensitive to any generation-load imbalance. Engineers at ABB […]

A fault on a 230-kilovolt transmission line in Dominion Energy’s service territory triggered the largest single load-loss event in PJM’s recorded history this July. The regional grid operator shed 3.8 gigawatts of demand in two waves, pulling total system load from roughly 100,000 megawatts down to 96,205 megawatts — a 3.8 percent drop. Dispatchers contained […]

France collected 13,760 tonnes of end-of-life solar panels last year, a 40% increase over the prior year, according to Soren, the organisation responsible for managing photovoltaic equipment through its lifecycle in the country. Of the more than 12,700 tonnes that were processed, roughly 10,600 tonnes completed a full material recovery cycle, returning glass, aluminium and […]

Contracts pairing renewable generation with battery storage have moved from the margins to the mainstream of Europe’s clean-energy market. According to data analytics platform LevelTen Energy, hybrid project proposals now represent close to 30% of all offers tracked in its marketplace — up sharply from a period when such structures were a rarity. The shift […]

Global electric vehicle sales rose 9 percent in July compared with the same month last year, reaching roughly 1.85 million battery-electric and plug-in hybrid units, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Year-to-date volumes have now crossed 11.5 million vehicles worldwide. Europe accounted for much of the momentum, with 450,000 units sold across the region. France led […]