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The devices can incorporate power from a range of difference sources — including traditional power plants, renewables, and batteries — and transform that electricity into either alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) at a number of different voltages, allowing them to replace several devices.

Solid-state transformers offer an appealing alternative, allowing them to shrink the footprint of their power systems while giving them finer control over where and how electricity is directed.

During the hours when European solar is at its peak, French reactors are no longer behaving like baseload.

Nuclear modulation in France, where reactors operate below their maximum capacity, reached 33 TWh in 2025, more than double the 15 TWh recorded in 2019. The shift is unambiguous in both the annual totals and the hour-by-hour flows. The diurnal price shape Europe has been forecasting for the late 2020s has already arrived in France.

Electrification is part of the solution to solve this.

Disruptions to global energy supplies and trade corridors are driving up the cost of food, transport and essential goods worldwide, slowing economic growth and increasing pressure on vulnerable households and debt-strapped developing countries.