Comet-ME has developed a solar-powered submersible borehole piston pump for off-grid communities and smallholders to use for irrigation and domestic purposes. The device, compatible with PV systems ...

Ripan Deb, a 37 year old farmer putting water to his field through a solar-powered water pump which was installed in his field with the help of the Government of Tripuras subsidised policy in ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. By 2026, more than 3 million ...

India’s drive to install millions of solar-powered irrigation pumps has worthy intentions. The government aims to lift farm productivity and boost rural income while relieving the state of a ...

Heifer Nigeria has launched solar-powered irrigation pumps to enhance farming irrespective of weather conditions. It is under the Finance Leasing guarantee scheme with farmers having access to ...

Following Bangladesh’s great achievement in expanding over 4.5 million of solar home systems to provide electricity in rural areas, the World Bank is supporting the government’s effort to install ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the energy industry. This article is more than 10 years old. Pashupathy Gopalan, President of SunEdison for the Asia ...

A subsidy of 80% will be extended to farmers availing of solar irrigation pump sets under the ambitious PM KUSUM-B scheme, which aims to provide electricity for irrigation during daytime. Inviting ...

Since the last quarter of 2019, Suntech has supplied 10MW of high-power PV modules to Yemen for the construction of a PV pumping and irrigation system, the first part of which was built and put into ...

Around 45 percent of Bangladesh’s work force is employed in agriculture, which represents an important sector in the country’s economy. Farmers use irrigation pumps to ensure adequate and consistent ...

Nearly half of irrigation costs in Bangladesh are due to irrigation, and the diesel pumps that currently power irrigation networks are responsible for 1.6% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.