Solar Pumps

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding deterioration of Nayar river, Uttarakhand, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …

Yamuna Power's solar energy to pump water

BSES Yamuna Power (BYP) has, for the first time, introduced Renewal Energy Assisted Pump (REAP) in the Indian capital. It can become a powerful energy and water solution for many users in power starved South Asia including Nepal. The solar energy based water pump will help meet needs of both …

Tripura unveils solar energy plan

AGARTALA: Aiming to provide energy facility to the far-flung places, the Tripura Renewable Energy Development Agency (TREDA) has decided to install 34 small solar power plants across the state. Out of total plants, 25 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and boarding houses situated in rural areas where convention power supply is …

Solar power to water villages

Ranchi, Sept. 11: The sun will help supply safe drinking water in Jharkhand’s hinterland from November this year, as the state government hopes to kick-start its ambitious project of solar-powered hand pumps. An initiative of the state drinking water and sanitation department under the Centre’s National Rural Drinking Water Programme, …

Tapping solar power: Haryana shows the way

Farmers in Haryana’s Rohtak district are offered a solar pump costing Rs 8.25 lakh at just Rs 3.28 lakh to irrigate their fields under a Centrally subsidised programme. Even this may not tempt farmers, given the low returns from agriculture. Despite heavy subsidies the sale of solar devices has not …

Farmers to get subsidised solar irrigation pumps

Perhaps for the first time, the district authorities have launched a scheme to provide solar energy-based irrigation pump sets to the farmers. The pump worth around Rs 8.25 lakh each will be available at a cost of just Rs 3.28 lakh after a 60 per cent subsidy paid by the …

Punjab to introduce solar water pump technology

Punjab government will introduce solar water pump technology for the benefit of farming community. The pumps to be operated through solar energy will provide abundant water for irrigation purposes free of cost, which will also result in increase in agri-production. This was stated by Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab, …

Solar pump a ray of hope for farmers

AHMEDABAD: The news of farmers' suicides from various parts of the country upsets this trio. Chintan Chauhan, Dharmesh Kakadia and Deepak Dhore have designed pro-type of a solar pump which they feel will help farmers reduce their power bills and also help them save time. "This pump will help them …

Hooda seeks subsidy on solar pumps

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday urged Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah to increase the Central subsidy on solar pumps from Rs.50,000 to at least Rs. two lakh, issue detailed guidelines of National Solar Mission and give sufficient funds to Haryana to make …

TATA BP SOLAR: Sun Smart

From solar lanterns to solar technology-run ATMs, from traffic and streetlights to railway signals, Tata BP Solar (Established 1989) now wants to light up 10 million households across India and generate 20,000 MW of solar power by 2020. In a country with over 300 sunny days across the country, leveraging …

...demands more sops on solar water pumps

Chandigarh: Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday urged new and renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah to enhance the Central subsidy for solar water pumping systems for irrigation and allied purposes from Rs 30 per watt to Rs 100 per watt to make the system viable for small …

Solar power to end garden water woes

The factory in Kalchini Tea Estate Alipurduar, Feb. 25: Workers of two closed tea gardens

A solar pump in rural Tamil Nadu

Electricity generation through solar energy can prove to be economical in numerous remote villages like Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu that faces massive power cuts.

Solar energy in Auroville

Auroville, a small community in Pondicherry is involved in a microcosm of sustainable practices through focus on solar energy.

Light to Ethiopia

With the aid of small island PV systems, a German-based aid foundation is bringing light in the huts of Ethiopia's rural population. The solar energy is also awakening the energy of the people themselves.

Sun shining down

a solar-powered pump has been developed in the uk which is simple and economical. The pump's solar panel captures the Sunlight that can provide sufficient energy to pump up to 4546 litres of water a day under average tropical conditions from depths of up to eight metres, according to a …

Of sunshine and oasis

for millions of people in the Third World, the shortage of water

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