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The Map BeneathPakistan's Solar Boom

PV Atlas finds every rooftop solar installation in Pakistan from satellite data — and the year it switched on.

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A [National Solar] Inventory Already in Motion

PV Atlas is already detecting installations across real cities, real rooftops, and real grid demand.

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Detection resolution

PV Atlas delivers a rooftop-level inventory of solar for the planners, utilities, and researchers that keep the grid running. From Karachi and Lahore to the smallest towns, our detection pipeline locates every installation — even those far smaller than a single satellite pixel — and dates the year each one appeared.

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Grid Planning Needs a Real-World Solar Layer

OUR MISSION

Measure the Solar FleetNobody Can See.

We build open, reproducible tools that turn free satellite data into a complete map of Pakistan's distributed solar — so the grid can plan against the number it actually has.

Sub-Pixel Detection

We find rooftop arrays smaller than one satellite pixel, separating panel from roof in the data itself.

Dated Installations

Year-over-year satellite history reveals when each system switched on — not just where it is.

Built to Scale Nationally

From one city tile to the whole country, on commodity hardware, with open data throughout.

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The Grid Was Not Builtfor Invisible Solar

Behind the Meter, Off the Books

Most of Pakistan's solar is distributed and unregistered. Official capacity figures understate the real fleet, and operators plan against a number they don't have.

Small Arrays, Big Consequences

A 5 kW home system is roughly 25–50 m² — under half of one 10 m satellite pixel. Individually invisible, collectively the country's largest source of peak-month electricity.

Powered by PV Atlas

PV Atlas maps this fleet from free, analysis-ready satellite embeddings, providing the spatial layer that grid planning, forecasting, and policy have been missing.