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Heavily contracted coal strains Philippines grid as outages surge in 2025
TZ-CAT data shows several heavily contracted units already exceed outage thresholds by 189%, posing risks to grid stability and electricity prices
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Batteries are Pakistan’s antidote to volatile fossil fuel prices
Investing US$500m in batteries plus renewables could save up to US$2.87bn in RLNG operating costs by 2030.
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A Japan powered by 90% clean energy is achievable only with a flexible system
New analysis shows how interconnectors, flexible nuclear and long-duration storage could help reduce wasted renewable energy in Japan’s power system.
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A year of solar acceleration: the Q4 2025 Solar Asset Mapper release
From China’s runaway growth to new hotspots in the Philippines and South Africa — TZ-SAM’s latest update captures a record year for global solar, plus key lessons from 2025.
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Free, no-code hourly dispatch modelling is here
Scenario Builder now bridges the gap between long-term investment planning and short-term operations modelling
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Tracking the solar revolution: inside the Q3 2025 Solar Asset Mapper release
From Saudi Arabia’s mega projects to Pakistan’s rooftops — TZ-SAM’s Q3 2025 update tracks solar’s advance across continents, alongside new research on distributed systems.
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Open source interoperability: integrating OSeMOSYS and PyPSA for power system analysis
How our unified, interoperable data model allows results from one model framework can be easily shared between and across multiple others
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Solar Asset Mapper Q1 2025 data release
Top-level highlights from our second rolling quarterly release of TZ-SAM
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Southeast Asia at the crossroads
Energy transition trends to watch in 2025
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Solar Asset Mapper is now released quarterly
Following today’s Q4 2024 release of TZ-SAM, we’re bringing you updates more regularly
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