 Synergy with irrigation water pumping and hydro power stations

The major disadvantage of solar power (PV type only) is that it can not produce electricity during the night time and cloudy day time also.In India, this disadvantage can be overcome by installing pumped-storage hydroelectricity stations.Ultimate electricity requirement for river water pumping (excluding ground water pumping) is 570 billion kWh to pump one cubic meter of water for each square meter area by 125 m height on average for irrigating 140 million hectares of net sown area (42% of total land) for three crops in a year.