Bangladesh could save up to $900m yearly by switching diesel irrigation pumps to solar, but financial and policy barriers ...

Following Bangladesh’s great achievement in expanding over 4.5 million of solar home systems to provide electricity in rural areas, the World Bank is supporting the government’s effort to install ...

The urgency of the climate crisis is felt across sub-Saharan Africa. As droughts and floods become more common and severe, crops fail and traditional rain-fed agriculture is becoming increasingly ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. By 2026, more than 3 million ...

A growing coalition of government agencies, researchers, and development partners is turning to renewable energy–powered irrigation systems to address some of the country’s most pressing ...

The first US pilot that will site solar panels over irrigation canals is going to deploy long-duration iron flow battery storage. Project Nexus is a $20 million pilot in California’s Turlock ...

Ripan Deb, a 37 year old farmer putting water to his field through a solar-powered water pump which was installed in his field with the help of the Government of Tripuras subsidised policy in ...

For states that want to move farmers from erratic, subsidised grid power and diesel to cleaner solar irrigation, the hardest question is often not technical but financial: Who pays, when, and how do ...

Nearly half of irrigation costs in Bangladesh are due to irrigation, and the diesel pumps that currently power irrigation networks are responsible for 1.6% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Solar pumps bring irrigation to farms and increase yields in food-insecure, arid Niger The World Bank-funded Niger Solar Electricity Access Project enables farmers to buy pumps Based on its success, a ...

, April 18 -- Amid global energy market volatility triggered by the Iran-Israel-US tensions and concerns over fuel supply ...