URPC delivers farm-focused solar PV and hybrid PV+BESS systems engineered specifically for direct agricultural needs—irrigation and on-farm operational loads. This sector excludes agro-processing activities (cold storage, drying, milling, packhouses), which are addressed under Agro-processing Solutions.
Our approach is practical: stabilise pumping hours, reduce energy cost, and protect productivity through bankable engineering, disciplined controls, and long-term O&M.
Farms often experience unstable supply and voltage variation, which can:
• Trip pump controllers and damage motors
• Reduce pump efficiency and usable pumping hours
• Create irrigation gaps that directly impact yield and quality
Where grid power is unavailable or unreliable, diesel becomes the fallback—typically resulting in:
• High, volatile operating cost
• Maintenance overhead and downtime risk
• Supply chain dependency (fuel availability and transport)
Crop watering windows do not move because the grid is down. Missed irrigation cycles can reduce yield and increase agronomic risk, especially during peak heat and dry periods.
URPC designs a system around your duty cycle and irrigation windows:
We prioritise PV to cover the core pumping hours, reducing dependence on both grid and diesel.
Where the site is grid-connected, the system is configured to operate as a grid-interactive hybrid, improving stability and reducing trips through proper protections, earthing, and control logic.
BESS is not treated as a default. We include it when it materially improves outcomes, for example:
• Ride-through during short outages within critical pumping windows
• Transition support to prevent nuisance trips
• Evening loads for essential farm operations (controls, security)
URPC’s agricultural commercial model focuses on reducing total cost of ownership and avoiding over-design:
PV typically delivers the strongest cost-per-kWh benefit for farms, so we structure the design to maximise PV utilisation during pumping hours.
We optimise layout, stringing, protection architecture, and installation methodology to reduce balance-of-system cost without compromising reliability.
We size batteries to the minimum needed for continuity and stability, avoiding unnecessary CAPEX and improving payback.
Projects are structured with:
• Measurable performance assumptions and monitoring
• Maintenance planning aligned to seasonal needs
• Documentation suitable for financiers and insurers (where financing is pursued)
Where land use is constrained—or where you want to preserve productive farmland—URPC can propose an agrivoltaics configuration:
• Taller mounting structures/poles to allow farming operations under the PV array
• Improved land productivity per hectare by dual-using space
• Suitable for certain crop types and mechanisation patterns (final suitability depends on crop plan, access, and shading tolerance)
This option is evaluated on a case-by-case basis to ensure it supports agronomic outcomes rather than compromising them.
• Load profiling and irrigation duty-cycle assessment
• Water source review (river/borehole) and pumping constraints
• PV sizing based on pumping windows and available area
• Hybrid design (protections, earthing, controls) and optional BESS sizing
• Monitoring, reporting, and structured O&M
• Commissioning and operator handover
• Farm location + Google Maps pin
• Acreage and crop plan (top crops + other)
• Water source (borehole/river) and irrigation method (drip/sprinkler/pivot/flood)
• Pump details (kW/kVA rating, hours/day; flow/head if available)
• Electricity bills (if grid-connected) and any outage pattern notes
• Diesel usage (spend, litres, or runtime) if applicable
• Photos: pump installation, electrical board, and available PV installation area
