Review of solar photovoltaic water pumping system technology for irrigation and community drinking water supplies

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 1084-1099

  Chandel, S S ^a   Nagaraju Naik, M ^a   Chandel, Rahul ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Solar Photo Voltaic Division Gensol Consultants Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Irrigation; Performance analysis; Photovoltaics; PV degradation; Solar energy; Solar water pumping

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INVESTMENTS; POTABLE WATER; PUMPING PLANTS; PUMPS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR PANELS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WATER SUPPLY;

PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC WATER PUMPING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR WATER PUMPING; SOLAR WATERS; WATER PUMPING; WATER PUMPING SYSTEMS;

IRRIGATION;

EID: 84929574650     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.04.083     Document Type: Review

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