Amid severe problems in its fixed grid, Pakistan imported 13GW of Chinese solar panels in the first 6 months of 2024. The country’s entire grid was only 46 GW in 2023.
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-rooftop-revolution?
Amid severe problems in its fixed grid, Pakistan imported 13GW of Chinese solar panels in the first 6 months of 2024. The country’s entire grid was only 46 GW in 2023.
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-rooftop-revolution?
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People often focus on the environmental benefits of renewables, but they have another huge advantage – they can be used as decentralized energy sources. One benefit, you’re not at the mercy of price fixing by semi-monopolized corporations obsessed with increasing profits every quarter. Even better, you can break free from other people’s incompetence, corruption and inefficiency.
This seems to be what is happening in Pakistan, and it’s a hopeful lesson for many other parts of the world. Plagued by a corrupt increasingly dysfunctional traditional grid infrastructure many people are now able to bypass it entirely thanks to rooftop solar.
I want to say here in the US, even if you could power your entire home with your own solar energy.. in some states you still have to pay a bill… albeit much smaller.
In some states, you can get a credit if you store your excess energy back into the grid though.