Solar panels are seen installed across the rooftops of a housing society in Karachi. Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels. — AFP
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.
The quiet energy revolution has spread from wealthy neighbourhoods to middle- and lower-income households as customers look to escape soaring electricity bills and prolonged power cuts.
