The ten people who shaped how we generate, use, and understand electricity and the sparks of genius, rivalry, and humanity behind every light that shines.

A broken boiler in the UK led to a quick decision. Living with a heat pump in the US completely changed how I think about heating, comfort, and what a home should feel like.

Texas became one of the fastest growing solar and battery markets in the world. Can it keep its speed as OBBB, grid reforms, and demand reshape the energy market?

Energy loves its acronyms, but it’s not always clear they’re helping. From HEMS to DERMS, this article explores how language meant to simplify can sometimes add to the confusion.

I moved to the U.S. and became obsessed with water towers. It turns out these quirky town icons quietly shift up to 30 GWh of load every day. No lithium. No algorithms. Just gravity doing the work.

DER is scaling fast, and the risks are catching up. Software needs smarter optimisation and risk managers need to step up, or we will repeat the same mistakes finance made when models grew faster than governance.

Did you know the first battery could be over 2,000 years old? Hidden in the sands near Baghdad, this ancient clay jar may have carried the world’s first spark of electricity.

AI can write, plan, and predict but can it run the grid? This piece explores where it’s already adding value, where it still fails, and why the future of a “self-healing” grid will depend as much on people and infrastructure as on algorithms.

Nikola Tesla never let go of the question: if music rides the air, why not power? The story traces his early experiments at Colorado Springs and Wardenclyffe and shows how that vision echoes today in wireless charging, inductive transfer, and cautious power-beam trials

A drawer once full of tangled cables gave way to a single universal connector. The piece looks at how USB-C reduced friction, sped up charging, and what its success teaches about the value of standards, from consumer tech to home energy.

Smarter meters on paper, stubborn results in practice. We explain what AMI is, what ‘2.0’ promises, and why those expectations clash with reality. We unpack where advanced meters trip in real homes and why a partner-first approach works better than cramming everything into one box