FollowAgriculture has always relied on sunlight and water, that’s a known fact since the birth of civilization. A project initiated in Upper Egypt uses sunlight to extract water from arid land, seeking to replace diesel generators that have traditionally been used.
In Wadi El Natrun, a standalone photovoltaic system provides the power needed to irrigate a wheat field through concentrated photovoltaic modules (CPV).
CPVs need far less space than traditional photovoltaic modules, because they focus the sunlight on an extremely small multijunction PV cell. A sun tracking system attached to a pillar keeps the lenses focusing light onto the cell at their maximum capacity to drive the submersible pump that pulls water from 105 feet beneath the soil.
