Bangkok, Thailand - 28 June 2007

Water pumping, particularly in relation to rural community development in less developed countries, was one of the earliest viable terrestrial applications for solar PV. Despite this long history and the vital functions for water services in helping to meet the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, the application remains largely under-utilized and key knowledge and lessons are still not widely known.

As a first step in addressing this shortcoming, Renewable Energy Services for Developing Countries, Task 9 of IEA PVPS, organised a workshop for invited experts on PV Pumping, in Bangkok in late June 2007. The meeting provided an opportunity to review and assess previous and ongoing PV-water projects to identify key lessons and also provided an opportunity to discuss recent technological advances. Participants considered strategies for improved outreach and dissemination models, and formulated a series of actions with a view towards consolidating lessons and esperiences in a new Recommended Practice Guide for water sector users and choosers.

The event was organised by Entec AG (Switzerland), supported by Envima (Thailand).

Presentations from the event can be downloaded by clicking the links below.

Introduction to IEA-PVSDC, background to PV Water Services (Bernard McNelis, IT Power UK)

Message from IEA-PVPS Executive Committee (Peter Ahm, ExCo member Denmark)

Lessons learnt from PV-pumping programmes in the Sahel (Anjali Shanker, IED France)

Lessons learned from PV pumping in India (KSS Sridharan, Senior Consultant, IT Power India)

Timbuktu case, Mali: poverty alleviation by PV pumping (Alfred Wirz, Wirz Solar GmbH, Switzerland)

Experience of GTZ with PV pumping projects- an overview (Dieter Uh, GTZ, Germany)

Dissemination strategies of hardware suppliers (Paul Jeffry, Mono Pumps, Australia)

PV- pumping in South and South-East Asia, lessons learnt (Giridhar Shrestha, JGSEE)

PV-water the role of IEA PVPS PVSDC (Paul Cowley, IT Power, Australia)

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