IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijetpo/v17y2021i5p463-480.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Technical and financial analysis of grid-tied solar PV for sustainable irrigation in rural agro-based communities in developing countries: a case study in Ghana

Author

Listed:
  • Benson Ahunu
  • Richard Opoku
  • Jerry J. Kponyo
  • Eric K. Antwi-Agyei

Abstract

Energy for irrigation in many developing countries is mainly from thermal power plants or biomass/diesel generators with high operational cost. In this work, studies were conducted on grid-tied solar PV irrigation system with net-metering for three irrigation sites in Ghana using an energy balance model. LCOE of US$ 0.23-0.24 per kWh was obtained for the proposed system compared to average cost of US$ 0.34 per kWh of grid electricity. The financial analysis revealed that for a 20-year period, there are potential cost savings of US$ 1,240,800, US$ 913,900 and US$ 756,350 with the proposed system compared to conventional electricity cost for the three irrigation sites, which have energy demands of 242,463 kWh, 189,493 kWh, and 153,183 kWh per year, respectively. It is suggested that for Ghana Government to realise its planting for food and jobs policy, it should invest in cost-effective solar irrigation systems for all-year round farming.

Suggested Citation

  • Benson Ahunu & Richard Opoku & Jerry J. Kponyo & Eric K. Antwi-Agyei, 2021. "Technical and financial analysis of grid-tied solar PV for sustainable irrigation in rural agro-based communities in developing countries: a case study in Ghana," International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 17(5), pages 463-480.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijetpo:v:17:y:2021:i:5:p:463-480
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=119851
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hadi Fazeli & Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari & Saeid Firouzi & Tarek Ben Hassen & Jhalukpreya Surujlal & Nima Nejadrezaei & Mina Sadeghzadeh, 2023. "Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception of Students Regarding Renewable Energies in Agriculture in Guilan, Iran," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-16, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijetpo:v:17:y:2021:i:5:p:463-480. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=12 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.