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Pakistan’s 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Wanderer@lemm.ee to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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"Pakistan isn’t the first country you’d expect to crash the global solar party. But by the end of 2024, it quietly rocketed into the top tier of solar adopters, importing a jaw-dropping 22 gigawatts worth of solar panels in a single year. That’s not a typo or a spreadsheet rounding error. That’s the kind of number that turns heads at IEA meetings and makes policy analysts double-check their databases. It certainly made me sit up and take notice when I first heard about what was happening in mid-2024.

It’s more solar than Canada has installed in total. It’s more than the UK added in the past five years. And yet it didn’t make a blip in most Western media."

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[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Basically the government has been taken over by the fascist military, foreign reserves are already non existent, Pakistan is one of those countries who asks the IMF for a loan every few years, inflation is rising and the bill for electricity is going through the roof cuz god knows how they calculate it. Not to mention, it also has a huuuuge load shedding issue which means it's not uncommon to lose electricity for 6-12 hours everyday and now Pakistan also has natural gas load shedding.

Soooooooooo, these solar systems pay back their investment much much earlier than other countries I think. Keep in mind that people already don't waste electricity or water or gas cuz of load shedding and high prices. So it's considerably cheaper to move houses to fully solar.

It's funny how much wastage is there in western countries, iirc the carbon footprint of the average person in a third world country is roughly 10 times lower than developed countries.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

Western and third world are political categories. You probably mean high and low income countries. Btw also works well within countries.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Third world is absolutely going to jump ahead of the first world in a short period of time. It just makes so much sense for things that you say and the need to expand their grid to cope with increased demand.

Batteries are going to be the real game changer and its underway.

Plus all the third world countries have great solar and only really two first world countries have good solar. 1 has the highest levels of rooftop solar and are looking to expand batteries and the other has American exceptionalism so will always have excuses to not be able to do things other countries can with a worse hand.