TY - JOUR 
A1 - Rubio Aliaga, Álvaro
AU - García Cascales, María Socorro
AU - Sánchez Lozano, Juan Miguel
AU - Molina García, Ángel
T1 - Multidimensional analysis of groundwater pumping for irrigation purposes: economic, energy and environmental characterization for PV power plant integration
Y1 - 2019
SN - 0960-1481
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/9405
AB - Nowadays, the agriculture sector presents relevant opportunities to integrate renewable energy sourcesas an alternative solution to mitigate fossil-fuel dependence and decrease emissions. Moreover, thissector demands a detailed review of energy uses and other factors that are addressed as priority issues inmost developed countries. In this framework, groundwater pumping energy requirements for agricultureirrigation emerge as a relevant topic to be improved in terms of power demand. Actually, this demand iscurrently supplied by diesel equipment solutions, with relevant drawbacks such as:ðiÞa large energydependence on fossil fuels for the agricultural sector andðiiÞa lack of participation in reducing CO2emissions.This paper proposes a multidimensional characterization to evaluate photovoltaic (PV) solar energyintegration into groundwater pumping requirements. Alternative solutions are compared under eco-nomic, energy and environmental aspects; thus providing an extensive scenario where the considerableinfluence of multiple factors such as water needs, irrigation area or aquifer depth are explicitlyconsidered. Extensive results based on a real Spanish aquifer and discussion about the solutions are alsoincluded in the paper.
KW - Proyectos Arquitectónicos
KW - PV systems
KW - Solar pumping
KW - Agricultural development
KW - Optimization energy requirement
KW - Characterization of energy alternatives
KW - Economic-Energy-Environment (3E) Analysis
KW - 2106.01 Energía Solar
LA - eng
PB - Elsevier
ER -