Solar
Solar Output to Surpass Grid Needs in Pakistan’s Major Cities Next Year
Pakistan’s fast growing rooftop solar adoption is set to exceed national grid demand in major industrial cities next year, marking a historic shift in the…
Pakistan’s Energy Use Per GDP Among Region’s Highest, Says World Bank Report
Pakistan’s energy intensity, the amount of energy needed to produce $1 of GDP, was 4.2 megajoules (million joules, MJ) per United States dollar (US$), compared…
Govt Plans Drastic Reduction in Solar Net Metering Rates
ISLAMABAD: The government has proposed a revision to the electricity rates for solar panel owners’ net metering in a submission to the IMF delegation. Additionally,…
Govt to Revise Solar Tariff Policy to Ease Financial Pressure on Grid Users
ISLAMABAD: The government is set to revise rooftop solar buyback rates by replacing the current net-metering system with a gross-metering system. This decision comes in…
4,742 Pending Net Metering Applications Exceed Pakistan’s Power Generation Capacity
Pakistan’s net-metering program, which enables consumers to generate solar power and sell surplus electricity back to the national grid, has achieved a significant milestone. The…
NASA Spacecraft Completes its 16th Close Approach to The Sun
Relatively unharmed, the NASA Parker Solar Probe will now prepare for its next mission, where it will get even closer to the sun NASA’s Parker…
Floating Solar Farms could be environment’s next game-changer
Floating solar farms are becoming increasingly popular across the world. According to NASA, which shot one of the world’s largest floating solar farms from orbit,…
Sigma’s electric car looks like a United Bravo copycat
Sigma Motorsports, a well-established importer of high-end motorcycles based in Lahore, has released the pricing schedule of its latest vehicle, the Sigma HS Q4 electric…
NUST attains 1MW of installed capacity for solar power generation on Islamabad campus
The National University of Sciences and Technology has installed 1 megawatt of solar power generation capacity on its flagship H-12 Islamabad campus as part of…
A technology-wiping solar storm is expected soon
This might look like something straight out of a sci-fi movie about a catastrophe-stricken planet, but there is enough data to convert it from a…
Walmart is suing Tesla over faulty solar panels that started fires at seven stores
Wallmart, the American company that operates a chain of department stores in various companies, has recently filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s electric SUV manufacturing…
20% of Pakistan’s energy needs to be fullfilled via renewable resources: Energy Policy
World Bank to identify the best locations to site the new renewable generation in the country. Government of Pakistan is planning to rely more on…
Engineering students from Peshawar design a solar powered electric car
A five-member team of electrical engineering students from CECOS University of Information Technology and Emerging Sciences have come up with an ingenious project as part…









