Post #2853148
2026-05-14 06:56 UTC
@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.
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@Two9A@hachyderm.io 2026-05-14 06:59
@liquidlamp@hachyderm.io @jackie@social.linux.pizza @ZaneSelvans@social.coop Can corroborate: I was just out in rural Pakistan a couple weeks ago, and "plates" are everywhere: https://hachyderm.io/@Two9A/116479992274950729
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@BillyBlaze@det.social 2026-05-14 12:47
@liquidlamp@hachyderm.io Proven by image https://graz.social/@c_ozwei/116567191197690811 @jackie@social.linux.pizza @ZaneSelvans@social.coop