Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
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#2> 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.
Re: Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
#3This is fascinating. As the article says, sometimes the most unglamorous things can be among the most interesting.
Re: Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
#4> 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.
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.
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#5> 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 at a lightning pace over the next 3-4 years.
Re: Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
#6> 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.
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?
Re: Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
#7It is nice to see good news from time to time. I think the bigger question here is what role Chinese policy is playing in this story. Is their involvement strictly commercial? Have Chinese politicians decided on some sort of Marshall Plan-style approach to the Middle East?
The US has spent decades destabilising this region of the globe. I am hopeful that China and India will want peace and prosperity instead and we're hitting economic tipping points where they are going to start getting what they want whatever it is. The US isn't in a position to cause as much trouble now if the Chinese military thinks their western flank needs to start calming down.
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#8Off-topic, but the image captioned "Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure" looks AI generated. The workers on the extreme left and right are standing on solar panels, and the one in the centre is holding some metal bars that merge Escher-like with the panels behind him.
Even the caption sounds like part of an AI prompt to generate the image.
Re: Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
#9Off-topic, but the image captioned "Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure" looks AI generated. The workers on the extreme left and right are standing on solar panels, and the one in the centre is holding some metal bars that merge Escher-like with the panels behind him. Even the caption sounds like part of an AI prompt to generate the image.
The caption for it is "ChatGPT generated panoramic Photo of a Pakistani factory rooftop covered in solar panels Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure"
Re: Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
#10Off-topic, but the image captioned "Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure" looks AI generated. The workers on the extreme left and right are standing on solar panels, and the one in the centre is holding some metal bars that merge Escher-like with the panels behind him. Even the caption sounds like part of an AI prompt to generate the image.
The file name is "ChatGPT-Image-Apr-4-2025-03_25_23-PM-800x445.png", so yeah, sure seems like it.