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2026-05-14 06:11 UTC
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop world's first solarpunk country speedrun
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@liquidlamp@hachyderm.io 2026-05-14 06:56
@jackie@social.linux.pizza @ZaneSelvans@social.coop that's Pakistan actually, due to the Ukraine war price shocks: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/7/how-pakistans-solar-boom-is-shielding-it-from-worst-of-iran-war-crisis >The solar share in the country’s energy mix has increased from 2.9 percent in 2020 to a whopping 32.3 percent in 2025, according to EMBER, an independent think tank. They are importing something lie 10% of all chinas solar exports, and its almost all individual installs, not industrial scale. Before this, their grid was 90% fossil fuel driven, and massively unreliable. Pakistan has around 250 million people in it, so this is an amazing shift.