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> Battery storage is the next act, mostly in the form of hybrid inverters and lithium-ion packs tucked into homes and businesses. That should go in parallel if

> Battery storage is the next act, mostly in the form of hybrid inverters and lithium-ion packs tucked into homes and businesses. That should go in parallel if they don’t want experience grid faults.

lambdaone 2y ago
Generation and storage definitely should go hand in hand, but I think the Pakistani authorities' desire is simply to have something better than the alternative of not having it. At least Pakistan has plenty of hydropower installations that could potentially be adapted to act as energy storage.
- mycall 2y ago
  Is that maily using solar panels to power uphill water movement into water reservors?
  - lambdaone 1y ago
    Either local solar panels, grid power, or a combination of both, yes. And of course solar panels can also indirectly "store" power by simply reducing demand on hydro resources during the day, allowing water to back up for night-time use.
matthewdgreen 2y ago
I think the main point of this article is that none of this is happening in a centralized, coordinated fashion. This is mainly folks slapping solar on any building with a roof, with the government helping out a bit on the regulatory side. It does eventually need to be coordinated to avoid grid issues, but given the massive increase in battery manufacturing (and cost decreases) battery deployment is likely to happen at a lightning pace over the next 3-4 years.
- tim333 2y ago
  The article seems unrealistically favourable to Pakistan's government eg: >Pakistan’s energy transformation didn’t happen in a vacuum—it’s part of a broader pivot toward climate consciousness that has taken root in both policy and politics... whereas in reality solar's taken off because the government is incompetent at providing electricity so people get their own panels. From wikipedia: >Following 2022 dearth of imported LNG in Pakistan, the country indicated it would quadruple its coal power plants, which use domestic coal Doesn't sound very "pivot toward climate consciousness" to me.

lambdaone 2y ago

Generation and storage definitely should go hand in hand, but I think the Pakistani authorities' desire is simply to have something better than the alternative of not having it. At least Pakistan has plenty of hydropower installations that could potentially be adapted to act as energy storage.

mycall 2y ago
Is that maily using solar panels to power uphill water movement into water reservors?
- lambdaone 1y ago
  Either local solar panels, grid power, or a combination of both, yes. And of course solar panels can also indirectly "store" power by simply reducing demand on hydro resources during the day, allowing water to back up for night-time use.

matthewdgreen 2y ago

I think the main point of this article is that none of this is happening in a centralized, coordinated fashion. This is mainly folks slapping solar on any building with a roof, with the government helping out a bit on the regulatory side. It does eventually need to be coordinated to avoid grid issues, but given the massive increase in battery manufacturing (and cost decreases) battery deployment is likely to happen at a lightning pace over the next 3-4 years.

tim333 2y ago
The article seems unrealistically favourable to Pakistan's government eg: >Pakistan’s energy transformation didn’t happen in a vacuum—it’s part of a broader pivot toward climate consciousness that has taken root in both policy and politics... whereas in reality solar's taken off because the government is incompetent at providing electricity so people get their own panels. From wikipedia: >Following 2022 dearth of imported LNG in Pakistan, the country indicated it would quadruple its coal power plants, which use domestic coal Doesn't sound very "pivot toward climate consciousness" to me.