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A revolution in solar-powered Irrigation: Solar Power as Remunerative Crop (SPaRC) model is being scaled out nationwide in India (WLE-IWMI)

A cooperative business model developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and partners is now formally confirmed as one of four components of a total USD 16.4 billion Indian Government farm energy program (KUSUM). Gujarat state has begun scaling out the concept; six ot...

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: 2018
Subjects:
research
ecosystems
water
irrigation
pumps
energy
land
cooperatives
government
power
model
components
gujarat
indian
programmes
case studies
agrifood systems
rural development
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121745
Summary:A cooperative business model developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and partners is now formally confirmed as one of four components of a total USD 16.4 billion Indian Government farm energy program (KUSUM). Gujarat state has begun scaling out the concept; six other states have begun piloting it under KUSUM. In the model, cooperatives manage a small solar-powered grid for irrigation pumps that sell surplus power to the electric utility.

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