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It's an extremely welcome addition, which had been left up to laptop makers to step in and provide (or not) in recent years. Unfortunately, for now it's part of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3000 (KB5050103), via the Dev Channel — which means that Microsoft may rescind it, and it probably won't arrive on "stable" mainstream PCs for several months.
The new iconography is pretty self-explanatory: Green signals a laptop with plenty of battery life left. A red icon means that you better plug in soon. Yellow means that you're running low on power, and that (in this build) your laptop is running in its low-power, battery-saver mode.
(Microsoft seems to have been a bit confused in its example, however, since the "yellow" icon here is associated with a laptop battery at 80 percent. Microsoft said that the yellow icon will generally trigger only at 20 percent or below.)
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