{"id":374028,"date":"2026-04-11T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:24:08","slug":"how-citizen-led-rooftop-energy-became-a-geopolitical-buffer-and-cut-costly-fuel-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374028\/","title":{"rendered":"How Citizen-Led Rooftop Energy Became a Geopolitical Buffer and Cut Costly Fuel Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When global LNG prices spiked in 2022 following the Russian attack of Ukraine, Pakistan\u2019s energy model \u2014 heavily reliant on imported fuels \u2014 came under severe strain. Electricity prices surged, outages intensified, and the inadequacy of centralised planning was laid bare. Households and businesses responded rationally: invest once in rooftop solar or continue paying indefinitely for an unreliable and increasingly unaffordable service.<\/p>\n<p>Redistribution of energy generation<\/p>\n<p>The result has been a silent but powerful redistribution of energy generation \u2014 from the state to the citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When global LNG prices spiked in 2022 following the Russian attack of Ukraine, Pakistan\u2019s energy model \u2014 heavily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69,2476,184077],"class_list":{"0":"post-374028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-pakistan","14":"tag-us-israel-iran-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}