ABU DHABI // Nasser Al Mansoori and Ali Al Taee want to make the country’s farms greener by swapping diesel generators for solar power.
Most farms use diesel-powered pumps to extract the groundwater that is used to irrigate crops and trees.
It is noisy, dirty and expensive, with farms paying up to Dh80,000 a year to fuel one generator.
The Emirati engineers have installed 28 solar panels, which generate 8.5 kilowatts of electricity, to…