If solar irrigation is over-drawing groundwater, you’re doing it wrong

Over the past five years, India’s agricultural solar program, PM-KUSUM, has installed over 2.5 million solar pumps, making them affordable for smallholder farmers through subsidies. As the government prepares PM-KUSUM 2.0, the challenge is to advance the clean energy transition without continuing to over-exploit groundwater

thehindu.com ·2026-08-19

If solar irrigation is over-drawing groundwater, you’re doing it wrong

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