Littleton: Pakistan emerges quickly as a key leader in the deployment of solar energy, not only in emerging savings. The Southern Asian country has increased solar electricity production by more than three times the world average this year, fueled by an increase of more than five times for imports of solar capacity since 2022, according to EMPER data.
This combination of increasing capacity and production propelled the solar energy of the fifth source of electricity in Pakistan in 2023 to its largest in 2025. What more, so far, in 2025, solar energy has represented 25% of the Nations of Pakistan which attended a quarter or more monthly electricity products.
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In the first four months of 2025, solar farms generated an average of 25.3% of electrical supplies from Pakistan public services, according to bilaire data.
This average is compared to a solar share of 8.0% worldwide, around 11% in China, 8.0% in the United States and 7.0% in Europe. And although the average solar shares of the northern hemisphere will climb regularly during the summer months, very few countries at any time.
Indeed, only 17 countries have already recorded a share of 25% or more of the monthly electricity supplies of the public services of solar farms, according to EMBER.
These nations are: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal and Spain.
This list is strongly biased towards Europe, where the shock of the energy sector of the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in Russia in 2022 sparked an urgent and generalized reform of the power sector and the rapid deployment of the renewable production capacity.
Indeed, Australia and Chile are the only nations apart from Pakistan which are outside Europe, and all nations include a gross domestic product (GDP) much higher per capita than Pakistan.
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The main engine of Pakistan solar overvoltage was an accelerated import frenzy of solar capacity modules from China.
Between 2022 and 2024, the Pakistani imports of solar components for the manufacturing of China have passed five -way from around 3,500 megawatts (MW) to a record of 16,600 MW, according to EMBER.
During the first four months of the year, Pakistan imported just over 10,000 MW of solar components from China, against around 8,500 MW during the same period in 2024. This increase of almost 18% in imported capacity also raised the share of Pakistan of solar exports from China to China’s solar exports, which represents this year for approximately 12 for all solar exports of China.
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The frantic deployment of solar modules imported across Pakistan in recent years has turned the country’s electricity production mixture.
Until now, in 2025, solar energy is by far the largest source of electricity, followed by natural gas, nuclear reactors, coal power plants and hydroelectric dams. Another solar farms were the fifth largest source of supply for electricity only two years ago, the pre -eminence of solar energy so far, this marks a strong swing towards renewals in the country’s utility network.
In addition, the country is committed to much more growth in the production capacity of renewable energies during the rest of this decade. Pakistan targets 60% of electricity supplies from renewable sources by 2030, according to the International Trade Administration.
During the first four months of 2025, renewable energy sources generated 28% of the country’s electricity, so that energy planners are more than doubling in this part by the end of the decade.
The solar modules representing the fastest and cheapest means to achieve these objectives, a new rapid construction of the country’s solar agricultural system seems likely, which will cement the status of Pakistan as global solar superpower.
