As an alternative to the use of diesel motors for pumping water from remote desert wells, the paper illustrates the design and testing of water pumping systems powered by photovoltaic (PV) generators. Regarding reliability and economic feasibility, the comparison results of these two pumping methods, replacing diesel motors with PV systems, are very encouraging. Up to a hydraulic energy equivalent of 6000 m4/day (i.e. 100 m head × 60 m3/day the cost of water pumped by PV is less than that for diesel.
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M. Mahmoud (1990) studied this question.