SE4RL: piloting alternative models of solarization

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Institute
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen_US
cg.coverage.subregionBihar
cg.identifier.projectIWMI - D-0471
cg.placeNew Delhi, India
dc.contributor.authorKuriachen, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-14T09:26:44Z
dc.date.available2025-02-14T09:26:44Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173048
dc.titleSE4RL: piloting alternative models of solarization
dcterms.abstractSolar energy for rural livelihoods has pilot tested solar irrigation enterprises as an alternative pathway for agriculture solarization. The project has field tested three models in Bihar, Eastern UP and Jharkhand which were tailored to local socio-ecological and agrarian conditions. Solar irrigation as a micro-enterprise was tested in Bihar with the objective of catalysing buyer friendly water markets. Solar irrigation enterprises have generated approximately cumulative revenue of 0.5 million rupees while reducing irrigation expenditure of water buyers by 80,000 rupees. In Jharkhand, to address the unique challenges of inadequate access to affordable power limiting irrigation and subsequently agriculture expansion, we pilot tested the feasibility of Farmer producer companies as irrigation service providers. The FPC model has shown better performance on key parameters like irrigation coverage and capacity utilization vis-à-vis PM-KUSUM and community lift irrigation schemes under JOHAR. In UP, working with Oorja SE4RL field tested the sensitivity of irrigation service fee on capacity utilization and revenues from irrigation sales. The field experiment reduced irrigation fee from Rs 4 to Rs 2 per cubic metre leading to a 7% increase in revenue and doubling of irrigation sales for Oorja. The pilots indicate that solar irrigation enterprises are a viable alternative to conventional strategy of promoting individual SIPs with large capital subsidies.
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKuriachen, Philip. 2024. SE4RL: piloting alternative models of solarization. Presentation. Presented at the Workshop on Envisioning Future Scaling of Clean Energy Business Models through the lens of Nexus approach. 08 August 2024. New Delhi, India: International Water Management Institute. 13p.
dcterms.extent13p.
dcterms.issued2024-08-08
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Water Management Institute
dcterms.subjectbusiness model
dcterms.subjectenergy consumption
dcterms.subjectemission reduction
dcterms.subjectfinancing
dcterms.subjectwomen
dcterms.subjectirrigation
dcterms.subjectentrepreneurs
dcterms.subjectpumps
dcterms.subjectsolar powered irrigation systems
dcterms.typePresentation

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