Quantifying the Energetic Costs of Photovoltaic Pumping Systems (PVPS) for Sub-Saharan African Smallholder Farms

With the solar panel prices falling recently, photovoltaic pumping systems (PVPSs) have become an affordable and effective technology for off-grid smallholder farmers in developing markets like Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the high upfront cost of PVPSs remains a financial burden for many low-income farm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liang, ZhiYi
Other Authors: Winter V, Amos G.,1979-
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139081
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7989-3678