Pakistan’s solar boom is helping it save billions during the ongoing energy crisis
Over the past few years, Pakistan has adopted solar power at unprecedented rates. That’s helping cushion it from the effects of the war in Iran.
Pakistan gets almost all its oil and gas from the Middle East, where U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran have caused crude prices to blow past $150 a barrel and tankers can’t get through the Strait of Hormuz. But it has one edge in the crisis: a rapid, recent shift to solar power.