Unreliable power
Irrigation power is unreliable and of poor quality, rationed and expensive.
Agrivoltaics · Farmer-owned · Investment-ready
A village can own its power plant and keep farming under it.
Bharat Agvoltaics turns agrivoltaics into farmer-owned village utilities, and gets each one ready for investment.
Power above. Farming below. Ownership within.
The starting point
Three deficits compound for the smallholder farmer
Land losing value
The land is a depreciating asset under rising heat, erratic monsoons and falling water tables.
Solar without ownership
Conventional solar leaves the farmer a lessor. The developer owns the asset and the village collects rent.
One plot. More possibilities.
Agrivoltaics answers all three
Elevated panels over active farmland generate power where it is consumed, and the surplus is exported to the DISCOM.
Their partial shade makes high-value, shade-suited crops such as turmeric and ginger viable where open-field cultivation would fail.
up to 30%
less water lost to evapotranspiration under the partial shade of the panels.
What remains unproven is community ownership. That is the problem we work on.
FROM THE FIELD · UTTAR PRADESH
See a unit working over a real farm
Transform Rural India's film from Ghumna Bharu shows elevated panels, solar irrigation and crops growing underneath on a working smallholder plot.
The BaAV role
What we bring
Investment-ready models
Community-owned business models that a funder or lender can assess.
EPC contacts
Builders who can engineer and construct over working farmland.
Intellectual property
Unit designs, crop plans and ownership documents made for smallholder plots.
Scheme DPRs
Project reports that convert farmer-centric schemes such as PM-KUSUM into funded projects.
Coordination
One point of contact between farmers, builders, agronomists, the DISCOM and funders.
Built to hold together
Four pillars hold up every unit
Farmer
An owner and shareholder of the unit, with farming kept at the centre.
Technology
Raised arrays, pumps, storage and metering designed around the crop.
Partners
EPC firms, agronomists, field organisations and DISCOMs working to one plan.
Finance
Public schemes, philanthropy and private capital layered into one unit.
On the ground
Where the first units are
Our first three units are in Uttar Pradesh.
Bilharka
Naraini block, Banda district
Panchampur
Naraini block, Banda district
Nighasan
Lakhimpur Kheri district