Project

Promoting the use of electric water pumps for irrigation in Sudan

Lead country

Sudan

Participating countries

Sudan

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From February 28, 2016 to May 28, 2022

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 7.b Expand energy infrastructure, upgrade technology
  2. 7.2 Increase share of global renewable energy
  3. 9.3 Increase small-scale industrial enterprise access to financial services

Project ID: 5324

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Technical team

  • Energy Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy efficiency

Sub-area(s)

  • Resource: Solar
  • Type: Off-grid, standalone systems
  • Agriculture/irrigation

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Rural areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Energy
  • Agriculture

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Innovative approaches
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Food and agricultural commodities
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Energy finance
  • Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
  • Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)
  • Demonstration sites/Pilot
  • Technical capacity building
  • Institutional capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Smallholder farmers
  • Women

Gender equality

  • Women farmers

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Sci-tech pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience
  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 7.b Expand energy infrastructure, upgrade technology
  • 7.2 Increase share of global renewable energy
  • 9.3 Increase small-scale industrial enterprise access to financial services

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Capital providers
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration
  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy
  • Poverty reduction

About this project

Description

The project aims to support the adoption of solar PV technology for water pumping for irrigation in agriculture in Sudan, particularly in the North State. Adoption of renewable energies has been identified as a priority in Sudan, as is reduction of dependence on fossil fuels which are imported. The application of solar PV to pumping has been on a relatively limited scale globally, but is seeing increased commercial interest in the past years. Solar PV technology in general is not widespread in Sudan. The project includes four components: the development of pilot projects as a demonstration of the viability of the technology and an accompanying financing mechanism for continued finance of projects; development of standards and guidelines to promote quality and sustainability of water pumping; development of a NAMA to support solar water pumping; and developing a supporting environment to encourage scaling up and further replication. The project aims to help Sudan and Sudanese farmers reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, reduce their cost of production (via decreased diesel expenditures), increase the sustainability of water use, and increase their income. Give that agriculture is a main component of the economy in Sudan, the project will help increase Sudan's energy security and decouple its GDP from fluctuations in fossil fuel prices and availability. The project has been designed to play a catalytic role in the transformational scaling up of solar power for productive use in Sudan's agricultural sector

Objectives

Financing and dissemination mechanism established and operational to support a PV pump installation programme.

USD $4,465,753

Grant amount

USD $20,150,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,465,753)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Sudan

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Financing and dissemination mechanism established and operational to support a PV pump installation programme

 Indicators:

Amount of reduced CO2 emissions reductions from water pumps for irrigation (compared to the project baseline) installed EOP, tons CO2eq
Cumulative installed capacity of off-grid PV solar pumps (kWp)
Extent of change in modern energy coverage by users and specific sectors
Number of banks providing finance for solar PV pumps
Number of new suppliers (partnerships) providing equipment financed by National PV Fund mechanism
Reduction of down-time and farmer's time lost to pump repair
Savings due to avoided diesel cost after pumps have been paid off (over 15 years remaining technical life)
Dedicated mechanism for finance of PV pumps established
Investment mobilized for purchase of solar pumps by EOP
Number of entities trained and capable of specifying and supplying solar pumps
Number of pumping system using water efficient irrigation methods
Technical quality standards developed and enforced for PV pumps
Development of a standardized baseline for solar PV pumping in Sudan
Development of an MRV mechanism for solar water pumping
Inclusion of solar pumps in fiscal concessions lists of the Investment Law and the Agricultural Implements Regulation such that they receive preferential financial treatment
PV Pumping integrated in National Energy Roadmap and Rural Energy Access Strategy
Outcome 2:

Financing and dissemination mechanism de-risked through technical standards and demand-side support
Outcome 3:

Mitigation instrument (NAMA) design elaborated and implemented in support of the PV pump installation programme
Outcome 4:

Supportive enabling environment and scaled-up implementation
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