Malik Osei

Malik covers home and community batteries — what they cost, what they earn, and what they free a household from. The battery, he says, is the exit visa: it turns solar from a discount into genuine independence. He prices storage by the honest measure — dollars per kilowatt-hour cycled over its life — so buyers can see what a premium badge is worth, and reads virtual-power-plant contracts closely to see whether the household or the aggregator captures the value. He also insists on pricing the blackout: the spoiled insulin, the dead sump pump, the hours of autonomy a utility never credits.