Chapter 10 covers various recommendations made for acquiring the conservation of energy in agricultural pumping system. The various recommendations are summarized below:
- In order to achieve energy conservation in this sector, it is necessary to energise all the pumpset which are presently operated on diesel, on the one hand, and expedite the rectification of the existing pumps on the other, but there are cases where diesel sets are kept stand by: due to inconsistency in our supply systems.
- NABARD, REC & New Organizations, Financial Institutions should chalk out a scheme to extend refinance facilities for issue of loans for replacement of undersized or defective pump set installed in irrigation.
- Demonstration of rectification measures on farmers pump sets and word of mouth communications with farmers will be very effective in convincing them about the need for advantage of rectifications of pumpsets. The plan for pumping systen rectification should include the following:
- Arranging atleast one demonstration of rectification measures in a village having more than 10 pumpsets.
- Educating the pump owners about the energy drain in their pumpsets: need for an advantage of rectification measures.
- Preparing necessary manpower for offering advisory and installation services to the farmers.
- Preparing necessary distribution channels for supply for rectification materials to the farmers at fair prices.
- All the activities have to be started simultaneously because they are complementary as well as supplementary to each other.
- To ensure that energy efficient equipments are only manufactured so that all the future installation are energy efficient only.
All the other informations and tables related and referred to each Chapter have been appended in
Chapter 11 as appendix.
Chapter 12 includes all annexures i.e. various informations and tables which are quite relevant to the study and has not been separately discussed in the text. These annexures also include extract of IS-10804 energy resources in India.
Power of utilisation of electrical energy, demand projection up to the end of Plan. Licensed and installed capacity of organized pump manufactures; per capita energy consumption in India and the three questionnaires which were sent to various institutions and manufactures. It also contains a list of manufactures of RPVC Pipe Fitting in the country and lastly a reference list which contains consolidated sources of information which have been used in this report and is frequently referred to.
Savings
Economics and saving discussed in chapter 8 clearly indicates the future installation cost of new electric pumpsets is about six lakh each year,and would need power generation to the tune of 2000 MW production of which will need investment of 7200 crore.
This amount cannot be found from any where and therefore has to be saved from presently available capacities by rectification/replacement of inefficient pumps. Even the six lakh pumps are all energy efficient investment of 2500 crores (35% of Rs.7200 crore) could be saved which can be used for providing funds for carrying out such activities and equivalent amount required would be hardly 10%. Similarly (ref. rectification/replacement of only 20 lakh pumps set s will bring about a saving of Rs.800 crore i.e. investment of Rs.200 crore will save Rs.1040 crore of power generation investment and yearly power consumption along with the above data if 50 lac pumps are replaced with energy efficient ores.
The benefits are immense and all investments would be paid back ‘Many Times over’ to the Nation therefore, these investments are not subsidies they are really high profit investments. Replacement by energy efficient one lakh diesel pump sets (as discussed para 8.3.2) would save diesel cost of about Rs.20 crore per annum and if all 50 lakh existing pumps are replaced with efficient diesel pump sets, total saving per year would be Rs.1000 crores per year. An effort and investment is worth carrying out in this direction.
