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.

TRAINING

APP

E-LEARNING

TUTORIAL VIDEOS

NEWSLETTER

TOOLBOX DOWNLOAD

HANDBOOK

ABBREVIATIONS

GLOSSARY

PASSWORD

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Further Readings, Links and Tools

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 of view 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,http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/01/13/0909678107
• 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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