The Brief
Delhi cut its grid losses from over 50% to about 5% in 24 years
An IEEE Spectrum account traces the fix from the 2002 privatisation of distribution and the Electricity Act 2003. The reliability index rose from about 70% to above 99.9%.
Grid Brief — Energy and the grid, read from the primary documents
US retail diesel hits $6.29 a gallon, a record in nominal terms
Refining margins, not crude alone, are carrying the increase. EIA's breakdown shows where each dollar at the pump is going.
NSW firming tender finishes with 3GWh of batteries operating
Four projects, AU$1.8 billion, and roughly 8% of the state's summer peak - all of it batteries, none of it gas.
ACER faults Portugal's adequacy study over its assumptions
Europe's assessment finds no problem in Portugal. The national one finds a shortfall growing fiftyfold by 2035. ACER's opinion is about the modelling, not the lights.