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Kartland Games is a personal blog about the new energy world — the geopolitical games behind solar, wind, batteries and the grid, and the innovations actually changing the board. One writer, one post a week or so, five-to-seven minutes each. No newsroom, no wire feed, no listicles.
Why it’s worth your time
The blog has a beat, and the beat is bottlenecks. While mainstream coverage asks whether renewable energy is winning, Kartland asks why it is stalling — and answers with specifics: the 160-week wait for large power transformers quietly delaying new projects; grid congestion in the Netherlands forcing operators to reject new industrial connections; the 8,000 GWh of clean energy India lost in a single quarter because the grid could not carry it; why battery storage, not panels, now dictates whether a solar project makes money.
Anyone can cheer headline capacity figures. It takes a real editorial instinct to keep finding the unglamorous constraint — red tape in Brussels, a transformer factory backlog, a congested substation — that decides what happens next.
Who it’s for
People who work in or around energy, infrastructure or policy and want the “why is this stuck” story without a forty-page report. Also investors and founders who suspect, correctly, that the money in a transition is made at the bottlenecks.
One honest caveat
Dig into the archive and you will find older posts on gambling and casinos from the site’s previous life, sitting oddly next to the energy analysis. The current run is sharply focused; judge it on the last year, not the last decade.
The verdict: a one-person blog with a better editorial beat than most newsrooms. If you want to know what is actually holding back the energy transition, this is where you find out first.