Abstract
SYNOPSIS A financial analysis and comparison of various renewable energy resource-technology combinations for water pumping in rural areas has been undertaken. The options include solar photovoltaic pumping systems, biogas and producer gas driven dual-fuel IC engine pumpsets and windmill pumps. The three figures of merit used to facilitate comparison of the renewable options with conventional pumping systems such as diesel engine and electric motor pumpsets are the cost per unit volume of water pumped, cost incurred per unit useful hydraulic energy and the present value of life cycle costs over a given period of time. Sensitivity of one of these figures of merit to the uncertainties in the values of some of the input parameters has also been studied.
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