Boreholes · Irrigation · Livestock · Villages
A solar pump that was specified from a brochure will disappoint in exactly the month it matters, because the numbers that decide everything — the standing water level, the drawdown under load, the true head including friction, the daily demand in the worst week of August — are almost never the numbers the customer supplied. We measure them before designing anything. The result is a system that runs for two decades on sunlight, stores water instead of electricity, and costs nothing to fuel.
About us
The company was formed by a second-generation well driller and an electrical engineer who had spent several years installing solar systems and repeatedly finding that the pump was the part nobody had thought about properly. Between them they cover both halves of a problem that is usually split between two trades who blame each other: the borehole and the water in it, and the panels, controller and motor that have to lift it.
Every project begins with measurement rather than a questionnaire. We log the standing level, pump-test the borehole to see how far the water falls under sustained extraction and how quickly it recovers, calculate the real total head including every metre of pipe friction, and establish the daily demand in the worst month rather than the average one. Farmers routinely under-report their August requirement by half, entirely honestly, because nobody counts litres in a good year.
Most of our installations are on farms, smallholdings and rural properties in places where the grid is distant or expensive and diesel has been the default for decades. We also work with village associations and irrigation communities on shared systems, and with conservation projects supplying water for livestock and wildlife. Nearly all of them are still running, and the ones installed twelve years ago are on their original panels with one controller replaced.
Advantages
Six decisions that separate a twenty-year installation from a three-year one.
Standing water level tells you almost nothing; what matters is how far the level drops under sustained pumping and how fast it recovers overnight. We run a proper test before specifying anything, because a pump sized to the standing level will run dry by ten in the morning in the season it is most needed. That test also reveals when a borehole simply cannot supply the demand, which is far better learned before equipment is bought.
Batteries are the most expensive and shortest-lived component of any off-grid system, and pumping rarely needs them: a tank filled during the day gives water at night by gravity, at a fraction of the cost, with no chemistry to degrade and nothing to replace in eight years. We size storage for two to four days of demand depending on how much cloud your location genuinely gets, and we specify batteries only when there is a real reason.
Annual averages are useless in this work. The system has to deliver on the hottest week, when demand peaks, water tables are lowest and the panels themselves lose efficiency to heat. We design against that week using local irradiation data and derate honestly for temperature, dust and panel ageing, so a system still meets its duty in year fifteen. It costs a little more in panels and it is the difference between adequate and disappointing.
Anything two hundred metres down a borehole will eventually need attention, and the question that matters is whether parts exist in ten years. We fit equipment from manufacturers with a genuine spares chain and serviceable designs, rather than the cheapest units whose motors are sealed and unobtainable. We stock the wear parts for everything we install, and we can rebuild rather than replace, which is the whole economics of a remote installation.
The commonest death of a borehole pump is dry running, and the second is lightning. Every system we install has dry-run protection with automatic restart, tank level control that stops the pump before it overflows, surge protection on both sides of the controller and proper earthing. These parts add a small percentage to the cost and prevent the overwhelming majority of the failures we are called out to on other people's installations.
Every installation is handed over with a wiring diagram, a hydraulic schematic, the design calculations and a plain-language explanation of what each indicator means and what to do when one shows a fault. Owners in remote places must be able to diagnose the simple things themselves, and half the emergency calls we receive from systems installed by others are resolved in a five-minute conversation because nobody ever explained the controller.
Services
Surveys and design, borehole systems, surface and irrigation pumping, storage and distribution, diesel conversions, monitoring and maintenance.
A site visit covering borehole test pumping, water level logging, head and friction calculations, demand assessment through the season, shading analysis for the panel position and an honest view of whether solar suits your case at all. You receive a design document with the calculations, the expected daily output month by month, equipment options at different budgets and a full cost breakdown before committing to anything.
Submersible solar pumping from shallow wells to deep boreholes beyond two hundred metres, with the pump, riser, cable and controller selected as a matched set rather than assembled from whatever is cheapest. Installation includes proper wellhead sealing, cable support, a safety line and dry-run protection, and the borehole is left with a sanitary cap that stops the surface contamination we find in an alarming number of existing installations.
Pumping from rivers, canals, ponds and tanks for drip and sprinkler irrigation, with the system designed around the pressure the emitters actually need rather than an arbitrary figure. We work with the irrigation designer or take on both, install filtration appropriate to the water source, and set up zoning and scheduling so the available solar energy is spent on the right block at the right time of day.
Tanks, elevated stands, buried cisterns and reservoirs sized for real autonomy, plus the pipework, valves, level controls and pressure systems that turn stored water into supply at the tap, the trough and the field. Where gravity cannot deliver enough pressure we add a small booster with its own control, and every distribution layout is drawn so a future contractor knows what is buried and where.
Replacing diesel pumping with solar, keeping the existing generator as a backup where the risk justifies it, and hybrid controllers that draw from grid or generator only when sunlight is insufficient. We calculate the payback honestly from your actual fuel consumption, which is usually between three and six years, and we say plainly when a low-use installation would take fifteen and is not worth converting.
Remote monitoring of flow, level, energy and faults with alerts by message, annual servicing that includes panel cleaning, connection checks, pump performance testing and water level comparison against the original data, and repairs to systems installed by anyone. Pump extraction and rebuilding is done with our own equipment, and we hold spares for every model we have ever installed.
Contacts
Tell us the borehole depth if you know it, what you currently pump with, what the water is for and roughly how much you need on the busiest day. That is enough for a first estimate; the survey turns it into a design. Existing systems that are underperforming are worth a visit before anybody buys new equipment.
We cover the southern and central regions, and travel further for larger schemes.