Durga, Neha and Gaurav, Sarthak

Energy Transition in Irrigation: India’s Trysts with Solarisation of Irrigation - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(20),may 17, 2025: p.60-67

Energy transition in agriculture driven by solarisation of irrigation will have several spillover benefits such as improved food security, income from livelihoods, and can also contribute to building climate resilience. The government and many international development agencies in India have experimented with different strategies and schemes for upscaling solar-powered irrigation in the past decade. The evolution of public policy associated with energy transition in irrigation in the last decade is traced, synthesising the critical techno-socio-economic insights from the most notable experiments that have shaped the energy transition discourse in irrigation in the country. - Reproduced

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agriculture, solar powered irrigation, enery transition in irrigation