{"id":20697,"date":"2025-06-18T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20697"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:57:14","slug":"solar-power-is-now-pakistans-largest-source-of-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20697","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power is Now Pakistan\u2019s Largest Source of Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/solar-cells-4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first four months of the current year, solar farms produced an average of 25.3 percent of Pakistan\u2019s utility electricity supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ember data, reported by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/pakistans-solar-surge-lifts-it-into-rarefied-25-club-2025-06-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>, solar power has risen from Pakistan\u2019s fifth-largest electricity source in 2023 to its largest in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report notes that so far in 2025 solar power has accounted for 25 percent of Pakistan\u2019s utility-supplied electricity, making it one of fewer than 20 countries globally that have sourced a quarter or more of monthly electricity supplies from solar farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For perspective, the solar share globally is 8 percent, around 11 percent in China, 8 percent in the United States and 7 percent in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also noted that only 17 countries have ever registered a 25 percent or more share of monthly utility electricity supplies from solar farms with Australia and Chile the only countries aside from Pakistan that are outside Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2022 and 2024, Pakistan\u2019s imports of China-made solar components jumped fivefold from around 3,500 megawatts (MW) to a record 16,600 MW, the report highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2025\/06\/17\/solar-power-is-now-pakistans-largest-source-of-electricity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2025\/06\/17\/solar-power-is-now-pakistans-largest-source-of-electricity\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first four months of the current year, solar farms produced an average of 25.3 percent of Pakistan\u2019s utility electricity supplies. According to Ember data, reported by&nbsp;Reuters, solar power has risen from Pakistan\u2019s fifth-largest electricity source in 2023 to its largest in 2025. The report notes that so far in 2025 solar power has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[282,3609,132,62,2235,105,20263,36,2351,946,20264],"class_list":["post-20697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-bri","tag-clean-energy","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-environment-friendly","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-largest-source-of-energy","tag-pakistan","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-power-is-now-pakistans-largest-source-of-electricity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20699,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions\/20699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}