Farm electrician for agricultural estates and livestock buildings in Seville, Spain

Farm electrician in Seville: pumping, farm buildings and the countryside

In the countryside, electricity moves the water, runs the cold stores and powers the machinery, and it is usually far from everything: pump houses hundreds of metres from the meter, farm buildings extended in stages and farmhouses with installations that are decades old. As a farm electrician in Seville, Spain, we carry out electrical installations for agricultural estates and livestock farms, from the panel of a single pump to the full electrification of a farm building or a solar pumping system.

What we do on farms and estates

• Well and irrigation pumping: panels with dry-run protection, timers, level probes and pump alternation.
• Drives and starters for large pumps, which prevent water hammer and adjust the flow. More in motors and variable speed drives.
• Agricultural buildings and stores: boards, power sockets, lighting and cold rooms.
• Livestock buildings: lighting, ventilation, drinkers and sockets, with protection against damp.
• Electric fencing and power for the estate’s gates.
• Lines to pump houses and sub-boards far from the meter, with the cable size calculated so voltage is not lost.
• Solar to pump water or to live off the grid, with or without batteries.

Pumping and irrigation: what we are asked for most

The pump is the critical piece of equipment on almost any irrigated farm, and it tends to fail in July, when it is needed most. A good pump panel includes:

1. Dry-run protection, so the pump does not burn out if the water level in the well drops.
2. Thermal and phase-loss protection for the motor.
3. Timer or control logic by timetable, by irrigation sector or by tank level.
4. Soft start or a drive on pumps of a certain power.
5. Weatherproof enclosure with the right protection rating and a lock.

For garden irrigation at the house or on small plots, see also irrigation and well pumps.

Solar in the countryside

In the Seville campiña, sunshine and irrigation coincide, which makes solar pumping very cost-effective. We offer three options:

• Direct solar pumping, with a drive that feeds the pump from the panels during the hours of sunshine.
• Grid-connected self-consumption (autoconsumo) on farms and buildings with a supply, to cut the bill for pumps and refrigeration. See solar for businesses.
• Off-grid installation with batteries for pump houses and country houses with no grid nearby, as we explain in off-grid solar.

Regulations

• ITC-BT-30: damp and wet premises, which applies to livestock buildings, pump houses and stores that are washed down.
• ITC-BT-47: motor installations, such as those of pumps and fans.
• ITC-BT-40: low-voltage generating installations, such as the farm’s solar system.
• ITC-BT-04: whether the installation needs a project or a technical design report is enough.

Farms without papers and switching to three-phase

Many country houses and farm buildings have been extended without a project and never had a boletín (the electrical installation certificate). When you want to connect the supply, change the account holder, sell or ask for more power, they have to be upgraded and the installation legalised. And if the pump or the new machinery is three-phase and the farm is not, the supply has to be changed from single-phase to three-phase.

Farms in the vega and the campiña around Seville

We work in the farming areas that surround the city: the vega of La Rinconada and the Vega del Guadalquivir, with a lot of irrigated land and well pumps; the campiña of Utrera and the vega of Carmona, with cortijos (traditional Andalusian farmhouses), farm buildings and large estates; Los Alcores, with smallholdings and country houses; the Bajo Guadalquivir, with stores, greenhouses and packing sheds; and the southern Aljarafe towards the marshes. The work changes from one area to the next, but the aim is the same: water and refrigeration that do not stop in the middle of the season.

How we work

1. Visit to the farm to see the well, the meter, the pump houses and the machinery.
2. Study of power and distances, and a proposal for boards, lines and, if it makes sense, solar.
3. Fixed quote item by item.
4. Installation, planned outside critical irrigation periods whenever possible.
5. Commissioning of pumps and equipment, with earthing and insulation measurements.
6. Legalisation and dealings with the distributor if needed.

Guide prices

Prices do not include VAT or the distributor’s fees. More references on our prices page and the rest of our services for businesses under business and industry.