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UP To Provide Subsidised Solar Pumps To Over 50,000 Farmers Under PM Kusum

Uttar Pradesh government has recently announced that it will provide solar pumps to more than 54,000 farmers in the state at subsidised rate this year. These solar pumps will be provided to farmers under the PM-KUSUM Scheme (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan Yojana) which aims to promote the use of renewable energy […]

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Advait Infratech Gets HAREDA Contract For Integration Of 66,000 Solar Pumps with SCADA Software

Infrastructure company Advait Infratech Ltd announced that it has secured a contract from the Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA). Under this contract, Advait Infratech is set to undertake the integration of 66,000 solar pump devices with advanced SCADA software, facilitating remote monitoring and connectivity with existing state and national level portals under the PM-KUSUM […]

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Karnataka Set To Install 40,000 Solar Pumps Under PM-KUSUM

Karnataka 2024 Budget released some key initiatives to support the solar sector such as through the installation of solar pumps. The 2024 budget emphasized some key initiatives to make farmers self-sufficient. The Karnataka government will install 40,000 off-grid solar pump sets under the PM-KUSUM Component-B scheme. It plans to do so at an estimated cost […]

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J&K Issues Tender For 4000 Solar Pumps Of 30 kWp Under PM KUSUM

Jammu &Kashmir Energy Development Agency (JAKEDA) released a tender for empanelment of vendors for supply, installation, testing, commissioning of installation, commissioning of solar projects. The project is undertaken for the solarization for 4000 existing individual grid connected agriculture pumps under PM-KUSUM Scheme (Component-C) in the union territory (UT) of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K).  JAKEDA issued […]

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Shakti Pumps Empaneled For 50,000 Solar Pumps In Maharashtra

Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh-based Shakti Pumps, a leader in solar pumping solutions, announced that it has received Letter of Empanelment from Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL), for 50,000 Off-Grid Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping Systems (SPWPS) pumps for the entire state of Maharashtra under Component-B of PM-KUSUM scheme (Phase-III). The total value of the 50,000 […]

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Odisha Issues Tender For Solar Pumps Under PM-KUSUM Scheme 

The Odisha Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA) has now issued a tender seeking suppliers for off-grid solar pumps under the PM-KUSUM scheme. The state agency has sought vendors to install and commission off-grid solar pumps of 1 Horsepower (HP) to 7.5 HP. The agency has asked vendors to submit hard copies of their bids by […]

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Solar Pumps, Refrigerators To The Rescue In Benin, West Africa

In the Kalalé District of Benin, West Africa, basic health services are hard to come by. Historically, a lack of electrical infrastructure in this region has meant no power to pump clean water or refrigerate vaccines. That has now changed due to a recently completed project by the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), with funding from the Millennium Challenge […]

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Water-Scarce Rajasthan Poses New Challenges For Solar Pumps

By-Parul Kulshrestha  As temperatures rose in June this year, Jaman Singh Saini, a 69-year-old farmer from Badangarh village in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, was irrigating his 31-acre farmland of millets, using an electric pump which came with its own challenges – erratic electricity supply, voltage fluctuation and associated costs. About 10 years ago, in 2013, […]

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