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Also "Battery storage is the next act [...]". There is no way they went "Full Clean Energy" without battery storage. Sounds more like op-ed piece than actual facts.
Nonsense. When you have huge cheap water dams, you won't need expensive tiny battery storage
> Battery storage is the next act, mostly in the form of hybrid inverters and lithium-ion packs tucked into homes and businesses. That should go in parallel if they don’t want experience grid faults.
I think the main point of this article is that none of this is happening in a centralized, coordinated fashion. This is mainly folks slapping solar on any building with a roof, with the government helping out a bit on the regulatory side. It does eventually need to be coordinated to avoid grid issues, but given the massive increase in battery manufacturing (and cost decreases) battery deployment is likely to happen a…
>Pakistan’s energy transformation didn’t happen in a vacuum—it’s part of a broader pivot toward climate consciousness that has taken root in both policy and politics...
whereas in reality solar's taken off because the government is incompetent at providing electricity so people get their own panels. From wikipedia:
>Following 2022 dearth of imported LNG in Pakistan, the country indicated it would quadruple its coal power plants, which use domestic coal
Doesn't sound very "pivot toward climate consciousness" to me.
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Also "Battery storage is the next act [...]". There is no way they went "Full Clean Energy" without battery storage. Sounds more like op-ed piece than actual facts.
Nonsense. When you have huge cheap water dams, you won't need expensive tiny battery storage
https://ember-energy.org/data/chinas-solar-pv-export-explore... has charts for countries (and regions) that go to middle of 2024.
https://ember-energy.org/data/china-solar-exports-data/ has the raw data, which shows 2194.236922MW of installation in pakistan in _just Jan 2025_.
This is just China export data, based on the assumptions that: the country importing is actually installing this, and that .cn is 80% of the market, so it is a good proxy.
Good job to whoever is importing this!
I can't take this article seriously: 1. Uncanny slop "photo" of people installing panels, not even labeled as generated. There is zero excuse for this. 2. No links to sources. Either they are lazy or just making things up. 3. Wild swings in context and sloppy usage of terms like "producing electrons". A sloppy style can be fun to read, but it doesn't work here because it is applied inconsistently. I'd like to read an…
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Nonsense. When you have huge cheap water dams, you won't need expensive tiny battery storage
Help me connect the dots. Solar energy - water dams - tiny battery storage.
Solar: only when sun shines. Peak power needed: in the morning. Best storage: water dams
In Pakistan there is no big grid to allow feeding solar back to pump water up. But the small e-rollers don't need much. This works fine enough, locally.
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Generation and storage definitely should go hand in hand, but I think the Pakistani authorities' desire is simply to have something better than the alternative of not having it. At least Pakistan has plenty of hydropower installations that could potentially be adapted to act as energy storage.
Is that maily using solar panels to power uphill water movement into water reservors?