A SEAHAM company which has developed a flexible solar panel film has teamed up with an Indian company making solar irrigation pumps for remote communities.

Power Roll, based at the Jade Business Park and Futurepump have signed an agreement to explore the use of Power Roll’s solar film to power Futurepump’s highly efficient DC-based solar irrigation pumps for rural agriculture.

Around one square metre of Power Roll’s solar film, weighing just 500 grams and costing 1/5th the price of a silicon PV panel, is enough to power a Futurepump to irrigate up to an acre of farmland.

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Toby Hammond, Futurepump’s Managing Director, said: "While traditional silicon PV panels have been effective in generating the energy for our pumps to date, they can be quite challenging to move, clean, and maintain.

"A more portable solution would be much easier for our customers to handle, as they typically need to move their pumps around their farms regularly. Adopting Power Roll’s solar film also maintains our plug and play approach – we want to deliver solutions that just work out of the box with no specialist technical installation.”

Power Roll’s microgroove solar film is suitable for non-load-bearing rooftops, building integration, transport, portable applications, off-grid projects and IoT sensors.

 

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