SPIS Toolbox - Get Informed - Further Readings
Introduction
The Toolbox on Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) is designed to enable advisors, service providers and practitioners in the field of solar irrigation to provide broad hands-on guidance to end-users, policy-makers and financiers. Risks related to system efficiency, financial viability and the unsustainable use of water resources can thus be minimized. The Toolbox comprises informative modules supplemented with user-friendly software tools (calculations sheets, checklists, guidelines). read more
Modules and tools touch upon:
- assessing the water requirements,
- comparing the financial viability,
- determining farm profitability and payback of investment in SPIS,
- sustainably design and maintain a SPIS,
- highlight critical workmanship quality aspects,
- and many more.
Further Readings
Further reading
Manual and Tools for SPIS – Stocktaking and Analysis Report
EPIA, Sustainability Working Group Fact Sheet – The Carbon Footprint
NREL, Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Solar Photovoltaics, 2012
Harnessing Solar Energy in India, Report by the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, 2010
KPMG, “The Rising Sun – A point ofview on the Solar Energy Sector”, 2011
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie (DGS): Planning and Installing Photovoltaic Systems – A Guide for Installers
Burney, J., Woltering, L., Burke, M., Naylor, R., Pasternak, D., 2010. Solar-powered Drip Irrigation Enhances Food Security in the Sudano-Sahel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 13 January 2010[1]
Woltering, L., Pasternak, D., Ndjeunga, J., 2011. The African Market Garden: The Development of an Integrated Horticultural Production System for Smallholder Producers in West Africa. Irrigation and Drainage Volume 60, Issue 5,pp. 613–621, December 2011. DOI: 10.1002/ird.610
Schmidt, R., Aplicaciones de Energía Solar Fotovoltaica; Diseño, Implementación, Experiencias, June 2012
FAO 1988 – Crop evapotranspiration – Guidelines for computing crop water requirements, FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56.
Links
PVGIS: http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis
METEONORM: http://www.meteonorm.com/en
NASA: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse
Some mounting/tracking system manufacturers provide product-specific design tools, which can usually be found on the relevant manufacturer’s website.
Glossary of the Irrigation Association. https://www.irrigation.org/Resources/Irrigation_Glossary_Pages/G-I.aspx
SPIS tools
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