Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world by importing cheap panels from China.

What’s happening here undermines an increasingly popular narrative that clean energy is unaffordable, unwanted and can only succeed with large-scale government subsidies.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pakistan-solar-boom

#cleanenergy #solar

This is a bar chart titled "China's solar panel exports to Pakistan, gigawatts." The x-axis represents years from 2017 to 2024, and the y-axis represents gigawatts, ranging from 0 to 15. The data is presented as a series of vertical bars: 2017: The bar is slightly above 0, roughly 0.5 gigawatts. 2018: The bar is just below 1 gigawatt. 2019: The bar is just above 1 gigawatt. 2020: The bar is around 1.5 gigawatts. 2021: The bar is around 2 gigawatts. 2022: The bar is around 3.5 gigawatts. 2023: The bar is around 8 gigawatts. 2024: The bar is over 15 gigawatts, appearing to be the largest bar by a significant margin. The chart shows a steady, but slow, increase in solar panel exports from China to Pakistan between 2017 and 2022, followed by a dramatic and sharp increase in 2023 and 2024.
This is a bar chart titled "China's solar panel exports to Pakistan, gigawatts." The x-axis represents years from 2017 to 2024, and the y-axis represents gigawatts, ranging from 0 to 15. The data is presented as a series of vertical bars: 2017: The bar is slightly above 0, roughly 0.5 gigawatts. 2018: The bar is just below 1 gigawatt. 2019: The bar is just above 1 gigawatt. 2020: The bar is around 1.5 gigawatts. 2021: The bar is around 2 gigawatts. 2022: The bar is around 3.5 gigawatts. 2023: The bar is around 8 gigawatts. 2024: The bar is over 15 gigawatts, appearing to be the largest bar by a significant margin. The chart shows a steady, but slow, increase in solar panel exports from China to Pakistan between 2017 and 2022, followed by a dramatic and sharp increase in 2023 and 2024.
This is a bar chart titled "China's solar panel exports to Pakistan, gigawatts." The x-axis represents years from 2017 to 2024, and the y-axis represents gigawatts, ranging from 0 to 15. The data is presented as a series of vertical bars: 2017: The bar is slightly above 0, roughly 0.5 gigawatts. 2018: The bar is just below 1 gigawatt. 2019: The bar is just above 1 gigawatt. 2020: The bar is around 1.5 gigawatts. 2021: The bar is around 2 gigawatts. 2022: The bar is around 3.5 gigawatts. 2023: The bar is around 8 gigawatts. 2024: The bar is over 15 gigawatts, appearing to be the largest bar by a significant margin. The chart shows a steady, but slow, increase in solar panel exports from China to Pakistan between 2017 and 2022, followed by a dramatic and sharp increase in 2023 and 2024.