Pakistan witnessing bottom-up solar revolution, says report

The role of renewables in Pakistan’s fuel mix has shifted from negligible to substantial over just a few years, but the country still has not signaled a commitment to the rapid energy transition away from coal that is already under way, a recent report has said. According to Boom and Bust 2026, Global Energy Monitor’s (GEM) definitive report on the global coal fleet now in its eleventh year, Pakistan is seeing a “bottom-up” solar revolution that is destabilising the national grid’s finances. “In 2025, decentralised solar installations boomed in Pakistan, with an estimated 25% of total electricity consumption now coming from solar, the vast majority of which is off-grid,” a press release related to the report said.