Applications for Solar Pumps
Rural
- Windmill replacement
- Stock watering
- Water transfer
- Pump up to high tank for gravity feeding to troughs
- Crop watering
Remote
- Off-grid locations to pump water
- Village water supplies
- Domestic household pressure
- Alternative to pumping using generators or diesel pumpjacks
Agriculture
- Solar flood irrigation.
- Low pressure Cultowa irrigators
- K-Line irrigation systems
- Drip lines or mini sprinklers or sprayers
- Dairy or piggery effluent spreading
Commercial
- Water transfer and water recycling
- Industrial waste water
- Dust suppression
- Landscaping or water feature
- Site regeneration
- Be seen to be green
Mining
- Mine dewatering
- Mine rehabilitation
- Groundwater monitoring
- Collection of seepage from water storages
- Adjunct to evaporation from ponds
- Dust suppression
Environmental Management
- Rehabilitation of toxic sites
- Adjunct to evaporative losses when indicated to reduce toxic water levels
- Groundwater monitoring
Domestic
- Solar swimming pool pump
- Use solar to pump to high tank to reduce mains power consumption for household pumping
Eco-Friendly
- Aspire to use renewable energy technologies if possible