How well do you know Pakistan's grid?
Guess six numbers about the country's electricity. Drag the slider, lock in your answer, and see how close you get. Everything here is real.
Level I
The Sun
Solar power is booming in Pakistan.
Your guess
How much solar power did Pakistan buy in 2024?
Rooftop solar is almost as big as all the power stations
But the grid can only see the big power stations, not the rooftops.
Estimate: about 38 GW of rooftop solar vs 41 GW of big stations.
Your guess
How many solar homes have a battery?
Battery buying jumped in one year
People are adding their own batteries to get through the evening.
Source: battery import data.
One region will use less power next year
Farmers there are switching to solar, so they need less from the grid.
Measured: NTDC demand forecast, 2026-35.
Level II
The Evening
The grid struggles the most at night.
The big picture
People use the most power at night
This is Pakistan's busiest power day, 20 June 2025. The peak hits at 11 at night, long after the sun and all the solar panels have gone quiet.
Measured: NPCC hourly data, 2024-25 peak day.
Your guess
Of the year's 50 busiest hours, how many were between 7pm and 1am?
Your guess
When it gets 1°C hotter, how much more power does the country use?
Level III
The Wires
The power lines have their own problems.
Your guess
At the evening peak, how full is the busiest power line between provinces?
The biggest power line is barely used
Pakistan's newest, largest line runs at about a third of what it can carry.
Source: NTDC operational reports.
Most of the biggest transformers overheated
Two out of three of the largest transformers got overloaded last year.
Measured: NEPRA industry report, 2025.
A giant dam sits in a tiny area
Tarbela Dam can make ten times more power than its local area can use.
Model: plant-to-area match; measured area peaks.
Planning for stations that don't exist yet
About 300 future power stations are on the plan, with no power today.
Derived: NTDC forecast, stations by 2035.
Level IV
The Problems
Where power and money go missing.
Your guess
In the Peshawar area, how much electricity is lost or never paid for?
The grid sells less power than before
Even as the population grew. People moved to rooftop solar and generators.
Source: NEPRA sales data, 2022 to 2025.
One city uses a sixth of the country's power
Lahore alone uses about 17% of all the power, out of 160 districts.
Derived: district demand, 2024-25 peaks.
4 minutes to break, 20 hours to fix
In the 2023 blackout, the whole country went dark in minutes and came back over a day.
Source: NEPRA report, Jan 2023 blackout.
The grid can fail in one second
In the 2021 blackout, power at Guddu dropped from full to zero in under a second.
Source: NEPRA report, Jan 2021 blackout.
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All numbers come from Pakistan's grid data and official reports (NPCC, NEPRA and NTDC). Nothing here is made up.