Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told a clean energy dialogue at COP31 in Antalya on Wednesday, November 11, that Pakistan added nearly 22 gigawatts of rooftop solar in just two years. He described the change as a grassroots shift, driven by households and businesses seeking affordable and reliable electricity as they installed panels on their own roofs. The prime minister presented the rooftop boom as evidence that Pakistan’s energy transition is already under way from the ground up, rather than waiting on large state projects alone.
Clean sources now make up nearly 55 percent of Pakistan’s energy mix, Sharif said. A 1,200 megawatt nuclear plant has been inaugurated, and the country’s auto policy aims for 30 percent of new vehicles to be electric by 2030, with more than 10 percent of motorcycle sales already electric. On financing, he put Pakistan’s clean power need at about $188 billion by 2035, made up of $138 billion for low-carbon generation and $50 billion to replace coal with solar. The global 35-by-35 electrification target, he said, will be achieved only if finance flows at the speed of ambition, through concessional capital and affordable technology transfer.
The figures in this video are the prime minister’s own. The 22 gigawatt rooftop figure has not been independently verified, and installed capacity estimates vary, so it should be read as Pakistan’s official claim rather than a confirmed count. The context matters because Pakistan is among the countries most exposed to flooding and extreme heat, and climate finance is a central theme of the Antalya summit. The photograph in this video shows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaking at the COP31 clean energy dialogue in Antalya and is an official Government of Pakistan photo, credited on screen. The other screens are original Zark News graphics and are labeled as a Zark News illustration.
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Sources: Zark News reporting from COP31, Antalya • November 11, 2026. Photo: Government of Pakistan. Zark News illustration.
