The solar on Brazilian roofs that nobody declared
More than 3.6 million solar systems now sit on Brazilian roofs, façades and small plots, most of them on houses. More than half of financing requests for these systems come from consumer classes C and D, so this is ordinary household economics rather than a niche for wealthy owners. A large share of that fleet […]
Where solar goes: satellite data and the site-selection problem
Somewhere in the United States, a finished solar project is waiting. The environmental review has passed, financing closed long ago, the land is leased and the equipment is specified. The one thing missing is a letter from a utility confirming there is room on the grid. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which tracks these queues every […]
Predicting power outages from space: the data behind grid resilience
In the last week of June 2026, France recorded its hottest day since national measurements began in 1947. With temperatures climbing past 40 degrees, rivers warmed, and the infrastructure built to keep the lights on began to fail in ways that were, at least on paper, entirely foreseeable. A reactor unit at the Golfech plant […]
