US renewable capacity could overtake natural gas by 2027
- EIA projects 76,914.1 MW of utility-scale renewable and battery additions by June 2027.
Solar, wind, nuclear, grids, storage: the electricity that will run everything else.
Energy is the mother section: everything else this journal covers — computing, vehicles, factories — eventually plugs in somewhere. We follow solar and wind as they keep cutting prices, nuclear reinventing itself as small modular reactors, geothermal, hydrogen where it actually makes sense, and above all the grids: interconnections, bulk storage, demand management — the plumbing without which no megawatt is worth anything.
The through-line is the kilowatt-hour: its cost, its footprint, its availability. An efficiency record only counts dated and sourced; a power plant only counts once connected. The section favours verifiable numbers — auctions, commissionings, production curves — and the players Western general media rarely cover, from Chinese electrolyser makers to island grids going 100% renewable.
- EIA projects 76,914.1 MW of utility-scale renewable and battery additions by June 2027.
Jülich’s model finds air could supply both CO₂ and process water in 97% of studied water-stressed regions.
An ETH Zurich prototype turns sunlight into heat for industrial processes.