ISLAMABAD — Muhammad Zia ur Rahman got the idea to install solar panels on his house after he saw some going up on a mosque in his neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital city. The mosque had ...

Karachi industrialists and financial leaders have proposed a new not-for-profit solar power framework that aims to divert ...

Glimmering, deep-blue solar panels carpet rooftops in Pakistan’s largest cities and dot the perimeters of houses in villages across the country. Pakistan, home to more than 240 million people, is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Pakistan has had 'probably the most extreme' solar revolution to have happened in 'any country in ...

Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt.

Pakistan may shift rooftop solar from net metering to net billing. See what changes, reported buyback rates, who’s affected, ...

Pakistanis fed up with high utility costs are helping the country become one of the world's biggest markets for solar energy. Betsy Joles reports from Islamabad. BETSY JOLES, BYLINE: In a village on ...

The Pakistan government has proposed an 18% general sales tax (GST) on imported solar panels in its Federal Budget 2025-2026, presented to the National Assembly on June 9. Finance Minister Muhammad ...

Pakistan’s on-grid, net-metered solar capacity reached about 4.1 GW by December 2024, according to Afia Malik, senior research economist at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE). The ...

Farmers are rapidly adopting solar-powered tube wells for irrigation to cut costs and bypass unreliable grid electricity. Studies show solar pumps lead to more water extraction than diesel pumps, ...