SunEdison, a world-leading provider of solar solutions based in the US, has designed and developed a PV solar-powered water pumping technology for irrigation. It has just been launched in India. The technology comes in 3HP, 5HP, 7.5HP, and 10HP variants powered by highly efficient 3-phase AC electric motors. These pumps … [continued]
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. Sunflowers, sunbeams, and dry fields. The sun is shining and the fields need watering, what’s a farmer to do? Use his tired old back pumping water? Worse yet, use that smelly diesel fuel or petrol to pump some water? No, there is an alternative! Use the … [continued]
Those yummy California lemons, avocados, oranges, pistachios or cherries on your table right now could have been very sustainably grown using solar panels. That’s because a giant California grower has just installed 1 MW of solar power to water their 7,000 acre farm. The 6,400 solar panels power pumps to … [continued]
