The Landscape of Power Generation in Pakistan: A Comprehensive Overview The power sector in Pakistan is a complex network of public, semi-government, and private entities. Over the past few decades, the country’s generation landscape has transformed significantly shifting from a hydro-dominant system in the early decades to a heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and now progressively moving toward local Thar coal, nuclear expansion, and a massive boom in distributed renewable energy. According to the Pakistan Economic Survey, the total installed grid-connected generation capacity stands at 49,651 MW. When examining the structural breakdown, Pakistan’s power infrastructure is divided across several distinct…

Our future city will be green by every mean, marvellous! But at what Cost! When I first read about The Line in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, I was inspired by the vision of a state-of-the-art city designed to exist in perfect harmony with nature. The concept sounds ideal, but it quickly sparked a critical question in my mind: at what cost? Long before we can move into this eco-utopia, how much damage will its construction inflict on our planet? Driven by this concern, I dove deeper into the research, and here is what I discovered: I answered myself that “Your intuition…

The Silent Revolution: Mapping Pakistan’s Decentralized Solar Boom Over the last few years, Pakistan has undergone one of the fastest and most unprecedented transitions to clean energy in developing history. Driven by skyrocketing grid electricity prices and a dramatic crash in global photovoltaic (PV) panel costs, the country added an astonishing 27 GW of distributed solar capacity between 2023 and 2025. What makes this boom unique is its democratic, consumer-led nature. Rather than waiting for utility-scale government projects, everyday citizens, businesses, and farmers took matters into their own hands. Today, distributed solar accounts for roughly 28% of the country’s electricity…