{"id":130569,"date":"2025-06-05T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130569"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:00:07","slug":"solar-power-boom-in-pakistan-undercuts-coal-fired-plants-built-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130569","title":{"rendered":"Solar power boom in Pakistan undercuts coal-fired plants built by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe rise of decentralised solar power has prompted a Pakistani think tank to call for China to play a leading role in Pakistan\u2019s energy transition, creating a model for other countries in the Global South. However, a Chinese energy scholar has questioned whether its vision is too expensive to be true.<br \/>\nAn increasing flow of cheap Chinese solar panels to the South Asian nation is undercutting demand for power from coal-fired plants that China helped finance and leading to a vicious cycle of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3313131\/are-chinese-solar-panels-answer-global-south-or-do-costs-not-add?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe rise of decentralised solar power has prompted a Pakistani think tank to call for China to play a leading role in Pakistan\u2019s energy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}