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Younger batteries think older solar is a cheap date
Or cheap rent / grid queue jumping? What does storage really want from Britain's solar farms?
First things first; this isn't yet the norm! But it's a recurrent conversation, like a couple long-term planning life's milestones; is it time to...
Britain's best start to a year for wind and sun — and the 6.5 TWh we threw away
GB wind and solar both set year-to-date records in 2026. Counting them properly means adding back embedded generation, adding back curtailment, and not trusting the series most people reach for.
Britain has just had its best start to a yea...
Not all CfDs are created equal
Britain's contracts for difference paid out £1.37bn in the first half of 2026. The average tells you almost nothing about any of it.
In June I wrote about how hard it has been to subsidise Drax — three subsidy regimes, one power station, a...
Voluntary Frequency Response (VFR)
Five weeks ago I wrote about the evening Britain's grid ran out of margin — the forty-eight minutes on 23 June when frequency sat below 49.8 Hz, bottoming out at 49.657 just after eight, while NESO halted exports to the Netherlands and phon...
Europe's hydro drought has moved north
Reservoirs are near decade lows in the Nordics and decade highs in Iberia — 2026 is 2022 turned upside down, and prices are following the water
Pull the weekly reservoir data for every hydro market on the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform and...
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