Pay-N-Pump 2, storage integration for home and institutional energy access, and improved irrigation impact

Partners: Smart Villages Research Group Ltd (Lead), Aptech Africa Ltd

Country: Uganda

Technology: Energy storage, including batteries and mechanical storage

Stage: Mid

Stage: 9

PAY-N-PUMP is an innovative smart digital pay-as-you-go water-pumping and irrigation solution for small scale farmers in Uganda, built in a push-cart format, developed by Aptech Africa Ltd in an Energy Catalyst 7 project, in partnership with Smart Villages Research Group.

This project will seek to modify the Pay-N-Pump technology to include modern, reliable Li-Ion battery storage to both enhance irrigation performance to better match market-demand, and simultaneously to make the system dual-use, so that it can both provide farm irrigation and also household or institutional energy access.