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Power and automation technology company ABB India sees a huge business potential in converting diesel-powered or grid-power irrigation water pump sets to solar pumps.
“Currently there are nine million diesel-powered irrigation pump sets in the country. By converting 50 per cent of them, we can save 25 billion litres of diesel,” said Bazmi Husain, Managing Director, ABB India, while announcing the company’s achievement of cumulative sales of 1 GW of solar inverters.
“By assessing various State governments’ initiatives, we see conversion of 100,000 diesel-pump sets in the next five years. At present, many states are working on subsidy to popularise solar pumps to wean farmers away from grid-power usage,” he added.
At present, only 10,000 solar pump sets have been installed of which 3,000 are by ABB India.
Western states, especially Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat, have taken the lead in converting or installing solar pumps.
“Installation has begun to pick up in southern states led by Karnataka and then followed by Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu,” said Subir Pal, President, discrete automation and motion, ABB India.
Talking about business potential for ABB India, Husain said: “Yes, there is huge potential for conversion or installing solar pumps, but the size is minuscule now. We see potential for 500,000 pumps in five years.”
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