AUTONOMOUS PV IN AGRICULTURE AND WATER MANAGEMENT

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: SE.-00218-95

Project closed

Start date 1 October 1995

End date 31 January 1999

Funded under

• Specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1994-1998

Total cost € 1 458 000,00

EU contribution € 583 200,00

Coordinated by

COOPERATIEF ADVIES EN ONDERZOEKSBUREAU (ECOFYS)
Netherlands

Objective

To demonstrate the technical and economical potential of autonomous PV systems for agriculture and water management in Europe. 56 stand alone PV systems, each rated at approximately 1400 Wp, giving a total PV power for the project of 81 kWp will be demonstrated in 5 countries of the EU. The PV systems will provide power for pumping of animal drinking water, lighting, aeration of fishponds, and small scale water management for irrigation.

56 stand alone PV systems for various applications, taylored for each specific purpose. Installation shall be completed by January 1998, with a two year monitoring phase starting in January 1997. An estimated electricity production of 45000 kWh/year is expected.
Subsystem applications (examples) : fish pond aeration, remote shed, greenhouse, pig sty, stables, alpe cabine, waterpumping (irrigation)
Nr. subsystems : 56
Power subsystems : 1.45 kWp typically (0.5...2.0 kWp)
Total power : 81 kWp
Backup : fuel generators or small cogeneration plants, one wind generator
Battery : different sizes
Battery capacity (kWh) : 0 or 3...20 kWh
Inverter : different sizes in some systems
Inv. power (kW) : 0 or 1...4 kW
Load description : various applications in different systems
Monitoring :

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › water treatment processes › drinking water treatment processes
• engineering and technology › civil engineering › water engineering › irrigation
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electrical engineering › power engineering › electric power generation › combined heat and power
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › natural resources management › water management
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels › renewable energy › solar energy › photovoltaic

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Programme(s)

• FP4-NNE-THERMIE C - Specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 3.1 - PHOTOVOLTAIC

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

DEM - Demonstration contracts

Coordinator

COOPERATIEF ADVIES EN ONDERZOEKSBUREAU (ECOFYS)

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: KANAALWEG 95 ; 3503 Utrecht ; Netherlands
• Total cost: No data