SPIS Toolbox - Get Informed - Further Readings

Introduction

Do want to know all about SPIS – Solar Powered Irrigation System : Please go to the newly launched standalone Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) website (www.spis-toolbox.org) , featuring three SPIS toolbox:

• Toolbox for beginners,
• Toolbox for farmers (new SPIS Web based App – to calculate design of the pumps),
• the Toolbox for experts - the updated version - Version 6

and additional resources (Publication about SPIS).

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

No tools for this module.