Report analyses impact of solar imports on Pakistan’s power sector

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KARACHI: Renewable sources, a think tank about energy and environment, has launched a new report titled ‘Leader of One or Leader of the Leader of No – Clean of Coal for Coal in Pakistan for China’s selection, which reviews China’s growing contradiction in the global south as a clean and clean energy -blowing work.

The withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement threw the international climate process into uncertainty, and raised questions that if anyone, if anyone, could take over the global leadership in the fight against climate change. Subsequently, several de facto contenders have emerged – though not formal leaders, they are influential players who create a global energy transfer. Surprisingly, the world’s largest carbon amter – China – has emerged as a dominant force in the manufacture of clean energy. Now it is providing most parts of the world with renewable energy technologies that are necessary to counter climate change.

These many technologies have recently mobilized a major energy change in Pakistan, which is called ‘Solar Rush’ in this report. Unlike the transfer of government announcements or boardroom strategies, this change is taking place on roofs, fields and factory sheds all over the country. In just five years, more than 39 GW solar panels-almost all of all-Pakistan obtained from China, have entered all-Pakistan, which is exceeding three-quarters of the country’s installed generation capacity. Nevertheless, this remarkable change has not been widely focused globally, and its implications of climate leadership are considered less.

This report has deepened this change, which describes China’s dual role in Global South as both major foam fuel investors and an important supplier of solar and air technologies. It opens the dynamics of the solar rush, which shows how the world’s fastest developing, solar market-led solar market is not through a great strategy-but through open trade, competitive prices and affordable technology.

Between 2020 and 2025, China exported more solar panels to Pakistan than many G20 countries – more than 16 GW in 2024 – continuing its pace. However, as solar adoption increased, the assets trapped in Chinese -backed coal power plants in Pakistan began to look rapidly. Once it is considered important for energy safety, these coal plants are now experiencing little use – in some cases to 4.0 % by up to 2024. Meanwhile, capacity payment has increased, and grid electricity has become more expensive for the rest.

“The solar panels of China are pushing for China’s power plants,” said Mohammad Basit Ghuri, the main author of the report. “What we are seeing is an unintentional but deep strategic contradiction. And Pakistan is zero for this global experience in energy.”

There is an important question at the center of this report: Will China accept its role as a clean energy leader in the world, or will it be pre -determined by a position that will endanger its investment and its global leadership is not incomplete?

The report emphasizes that when the leadership is left, it is decreasing rapidly. विकेंद्रीकृत Solar now with the displacement of central power generation, Pakistan’s needs are ready. Now it also requires not only panels but also a road map for storage solutions, grid upgrades, local manufacturing, financial equipment, and trapped coal assets.

Pakistan can be the first country to observe such a massive confrontation between legacy coal and dedicated solar, but it will not be the last. If China goes to this challenge successfully, it can not only guide Pakistan’s energy transfer, but also strengthen its role as the architect of a new energy model for the global South. This is a sharp, equal and really change.