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Patrick Jowett pv magazine editor

Patrick Jowett pv magazine editor

Patrick Jowett

patrick.jowett@pv-magazine.com

Articles written by Patrick Jowett

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Somalia launches tender for solar-storage systems at health facilities Somalia launches tender for solar-storage systems at health facilities, with minimum storage of 300 kWh

Nov 26, 2025

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Residential installations lead Dutch storage boom The phasing out of net-metering for solar installations is incentivizing a growing number of citizens to install residential battery storage systems in the Netherlands. Analysts are predicting the upward trend will accelerate in the coming years.

Nov 24, 2025

Grid-scale

Utility-scale BESS to drive Czechia’s storage market Analysis by Aurora Energy Research says recent regulatory changes in Czechia have opened the door to a considerable build-out in utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS). Wholesale and ancillary prices are offering strong opportunities in the short term, with a two-hour BESS switched on next year likely to reach an internal rate of return over 15%.

Nov 14, 2025

Auctions

Philippines expands fourth auction with storage winning almost 5 GWh The Philippines’ Department of Energy has finalized its fourth green energy auction, which specified technical standards for storage that will see close to 5 GWh installed.

Tristan Rayner, Patrick Jowett

Nov 10, 2025

Grid-scale

Dubai expands storage in seventh phase of world’s largest solar park Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) says the seventh phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will pair 2 GW of solar with 1.4 GW of storage, up from 1 GW, after receiving 49 expressions of interest under its 2050 clean energy plan.

Nov 05, 2025

Finance

EBRD invests in 1 GW of solar, 1.3 GWh of storage in Uzbekistan The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing $142 million in financing to two ACWA Power-led solar-plus-storage projects in central Uzbekistan.

Oct 30, 2025

Grid-scale

Nearly half of solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, says DNV DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook 2025 report also predicts that distributed generation solar should begin outpacing utility-scale installations in some parts of the world by 2060. It adds that the levelized cost of electricity for solar is beginning to plateau and is expected to slow to an annual drop below 1% by the 2050s.

Oct 21, 2025

Grid-scale

Renalfa switches on 260 MWh battery storage system in Bulgaria The battery energy storage system is the first phase of a 315 MW/760 MWh system that is being developed alongside 238 MW of solar under Bulgaria’s largest hybrid power project to date, due for completion next year.

Oct 14, 2025

Markets

Romania’s grid operator publishes rules for capacity auctions All generation and energy storage facilities of 5 MW or larger in Romania will be required to secure grid access via annual auctions beginning January 2026. The country’s transmission and system operator, Transelectrica, has published how it plans to implement the auctions.

Oct 06, 2025

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