Solar panels on the rooftops of houses in Islamabad. Pakistan is in the midst of a solar boom that solar analysts describe as "unprecedented." ISLAMABAD — Muhammad Zia ur Rahman got the idea to ...

Since 2022, after suffering a large flooding event driven by the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in its history, Pakistan has ...

The Sindh government has distributed 170,383 Solar Home Systems to households across the province under the Sindh Solar ...

Pakistan has imported over 50 GW of solar modules from China, including 18 GW during the country’s last fiscal year. In the absence of official installation figures, Islamabad-based thinktank ...

Solar panel prices in Pakistan have surged in 2026, with Chinese 585W, 645W and 720W models rising by up to Rs. 5,000 per ...

Farmers in Pakistan are replacing diesel-fueled pumps with solar energy to power the typical irrigation technique in a large part of the world’s fifth most populous country. Many farmers rely on the ...

Pakistan is rapidly advancing its clean energy transition, with renewables now accounting for 53% of total electricity ...

Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels - Copyright AFP Asif HASSAN Pakistanis are ...

Pakistan’s off-grid solar boom holds immense promise. But without strategic guidance and integrated policy, it risks reinforcing inequality instead of resolving it. Across the sunbaked plains of ...

ISLAMABAD — Muhammad Zia ur Rahman got the idea to install solar panels on his house after he saw some going up on a mosque in his neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital city. The mosque had ...

Farmers are rapidly adopting solar-powered tube wells for irrigation to cut costs and bypass unreliable grid electricity. Studies show solar pumps lead to more water extraction than diesel pumps, ...