Sustainable Energy Lab was awarded a two-year, $1.1 million innovation grant to establish three smart solar irrigation pilot projects in Senegal’s Millennium Village. The grant comes from USAID, the Swedish government, Duke Energy, and GIZ.
The Sustainable Engineering Lab will help small farmers irrigate land with solar PV via a pre-paid system. The project will use a centralized PV power production center to provide electricity to a network of farmers along individual distribution lines, in the form of a micro-utility that provides energy for pumping and other uses.
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