Feddit.frHow Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world
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Pakistan’s story is unique, said Mustafa Amjad, program director at Renewables First, an energy think tank based in Islamabad. Solar has been adopted at mass scale in countries including Vietnam and South Africa, “but none have had the speed and scale that Pakistan has had,” he told CNN.
There’s one particular aspect fascinating experts: The solar boom is a grassroots revolution and almost none of it is in the form of big solar farms. “There is no policy push that is driving this; this is essentially people-led and market driven,” Amjad said.
The country has become a huge new market for solar as super-cheap Chinese solar panels flood in. It imported 17 gigawatts of solar panels in 2024, more than double the previous year, making it the world’s third-biggest importer, according to data from the climate think tank Ember.
what boggles my mind is they have little evidence of what the entire install is because solar is pushing power out to places that were never even connected to a grid. that's how fast the adoption is going. it's not just displacing users from the fragile, piecemeal grid that Pakistan has, it's leaping to users beyond the grid's footprint.
Yeah a lot of the underdeveloped world is taking the same path, just completely skipping the grid and going straight to solar. Same way they did with cellular skipping copper/fiber.
smarter than waiting for it to show up.