Researchers from India’s Vellore Institute of Technology have tested a seven-level inverter with five power semiconductor switches for use with solar-powered, off-grid water pumping systems.

The scheme, introduced in the Feb budget earlier this year, was launched to enable farmers to use solar-powered pumps to draw water from reservoirs to irrigate fields during the daytime at almost ...

The Indian government is aiming to swap out 26 million fossil-fuel-powered groundwater pumps for solar-powered ones, Bloomberg reports. The pumps are used by farmers throughout the country to pull in ...