Pakistan’s solar surge lifts it into rarefied 25% club

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Littleton: Pakistan is emerging as a key leader in the deployment of solar energy, not just in the emerging economies. According to Amber data, the South Asian country has promoted more than three times solar power generation from the global average this year, which has increased solar capacity more than five times since 2022.

This rapidly growing capacity and this combination of generation have brought solar energy to its largest in 2023 through Pakistan’s fifth largest electricity. So far, in 2025, solar power is 25 % of Pakistan’s useful power, which is less than 20 countries.

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Amber data shows that in the first four months of 2025, solar farms produced an average of 25.3 % of Pakistan’s utility power supply.

Compared to this average globally 8.0 %, about 11 % in China, 8.0 % in the United States and 7.0 % in Europe. And the average solar shares in the northern hemisphere will climb permanently in the summer months, with very few countries coming close to getting a quarter of all utility power supply from solar farms at any time.

According to Amber, in fact, only 17 countries have registered 25 % or more in the monthly utility power supply from solar farms.

Those countries are: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal and Spain.

The list has been widely defeated by Europe, where the shock of the power sector in 2022 with a full -scale attack on Ukraine, promptly and widespread power sector reform and renewable productive capacity, gave rise to a rapid rollout.

In fact, Australia and Chile are the only nations that are out of Pakistan that are out of Europe, and all the nations are proud of the total domestic products (GDP) per person than Pakistan.

Export drive

The chief driver of Pakistan’s solar growth has been a faster imported import of solar capacity modules from China.

According to Amber, between 2022 and 2024, imports of solar components manufactured from China recorded 3,500 MW (MW) five times to 16,600 MW.

During the first four months of the year, Pakistan imported more than 10,000 MW from China in 2024 compared to 8,500 MW.

Solar focus

In recent years, the brutal deployment of imported solar modules across Pakistan has promoted the country’s electricity -generating compound.

So far in 2025, solar power is the only largest source of electricity, followed by natural gas, nuclear reactors, coal plants and hydro dams. Solar farm was the fifth largest source of supply for electricity just two years ago, so far the solar pre -eminent has a sharp swing towards renewable sources within the country’s utility network.

In addition, according to the International Trade Administration, the country is determined to greatly increase the capacity of renewable energy. According to the International Trade Administration, Pakistan is targeting 60 % of the power supply from renewable sources by 2030.

During the first four months of 2025, renewable energy sources produced 28 % of the country’s electricity, so the energy planners are making the purpose of double the maximum in this section by the end of the decade.

With solar modules representing faster and cheap sources to meet these goals, the country’s solar farm system seems to be likely to be more rapidly constructed, which will strengthen Pakistan’s status as a global solar superpower.