Energy Lab
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Five Ships, $90 Oil: The Hormuz Numbers the Headlines Skip
One burning tanker, five commodity ships crossing Hormuz in a day, a freight index up 7.1 percent in a week, and a strategic reserve at…
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The Numbers on Hormuz: Transit From 140 Ships a Day to Single Digits
Transit through the Strait of Hormuz fell from a pre-crisis 130-140 ships a day to single digits. Brent closed at $90.49. The real constraint isn’t…
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Grid Scale Begins Where the Laboratory Ends
A practical, evidence-led examination of electricity-system flexibility, focused on coordination, access, timing and the operating measures that turn a visible trend into durable value.
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What happens to solar panels when they die?
By 2050, discarded solar modules could amount to more than 80 million tonnes of waste. New chemistry is turning the problem around: hydrometallurgy recovers silver…
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LFP won the grid. Now the next chemistry is queuing up
Lithium iron phosphate took more than 90% of grid storage deployments. Now sodium-ion is signing real contracts — a 60 GWh supply deal, a 1…
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The Grid Is Becoming the World’s Largest Machine
The electricity grid was built to deliver power one way. It is being rebuilt to do the opposite, and that changes everything downstream.
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Renewables Are About to Overtake Coal. The Grid Has to Catch Up
Solar and wind are set to become the world’s largest source of electricity, probably this year. The harder part is building a grid that can…