Solar Tube Well Price in Pakistan - 10HP, 15HP, and 20HP System Tables

Key Takeaways

• We found no official price table. Every tube well price below is listed on a seller, price-blog or classifieds page. For 10 HP the lowest we found is Rs 830,000 (Solar Price Hub, scope not stated) and the highest Rs 2,200,000 (Solar Citizen, with pump and installation, and Tractors.com.pk, scope not stated). For 15 HP the range is Rs 1,130,000 (Solar Price Hub, scope not stated) to Rs 3,000,000 (Solar Citizen, with pump and installation), and for 20 HP Rs 1,630,000 (Solar Price Hub, scope not stated) to Rs 4,000,000 (Solar Citizen, with pump and installation).
• The pages do not explain the spread. Some sellers include the pump and installation, some name only panels, VFD and structure, and several do not say what the price covers. Among the pages we read, only Pakistan Solar Traders states an exclusion: borewell drilling and civil works.
• Sellers state 16 to 20 panels for 10 HP, 24 to 30 for 15 HP and 32 to 40 for 20 HP. Solar With Price and Solar Z Price state 540 to 545 W panels, while Pakistan Solar Traders' counts are for 580 to 620 W panels. Tractors.com.pk is an outlier at 45 panels for 15 HP.
• VFD advice differs. INVT's GD100-PV catalogue, a 3-phase 380 V table, lists 10 Hp against a 7.5 kW drive, 15 Hp against 11 kW and 20 Hp against 15 kW. Veichi pairs an inverter with a pump of the same kW. The seller tables here show 11 kW for 10 HP, mostly 15 kW for 15 HP and 22 to 25 kW for 20 HP. Dealer VFD pages also pair 18.5 kW with 20 HP. We found no manual that ties drive kW to tube well pump HP.
• Water output depends on pumping head. The one seller that gives gallons per day for each size states no head.
• For fuel savings, see our diesel guide, which uses fuel-burn and pumping-hour data from older sources, including a 2003 IWMI survey. Seller claims for a diesel tube well's monthly fuel or running cost range from Rs 15,000 to well over Rs 100,000.

Introduction

Anyone pricing a solar tube well in Pakistan finds many tables and no common basis. This guide lists what each seller publishes for 10, 15 and 20 HP, with the date signal on the page and what the price covers. It does not average sellers, because they are not describing the same system.

Who publishes these prices?

Pakistan Solar Traders, Solar Citizen, Alpha Solar and E-Green describe their own installation work. Solar With Price and Solar Price Hub look like neutral price blogs but describe themselves as a seller and a shop. Solar Z Price and PakSolarInsights are price blogs that state no seller role, and Tractors.com.pk is a farm classifieds site.

Some pages print identical figures. Alpha Solar and E-Green print the same 10 HP and 15 HP prices, and Solar With Price and Solar Z Price print the same 20 HP total. Treat each group as one source. One lakh is a hundred thousand rupees.

10 HP solar tube well prices

15 HP solar tube well prices

20 HP solar tube well prices

Alpha Solar prices no 20 HP system and says some landowners may require a custom HP solar tube well, and E-Green and Tractors.com.pk give no 20 HP price. Several pages carry visible slips: Solar Price Hub shows Rs 5,500,000 for a 5 HP system and mentions a 40 HP system in its 20 HP section, Solar Z Price prints two different ranges for the same size, and the FAQ on Solar With Price gives a 10 HP pole price of Rs 1,420,000 where its table gives Rs 1,220,000. Do not rely on a single page.

Why do prices differ so much?

• Scope. Compare the last column above. A price with a pump and installation is not comparable with one that lists only panels, VFD and structure.
• Structure. Sellers price an L2 structure and a pole-mounted structure differently, as in the Alpha Solar and Solar With Price rows.
• Depth and pump. Solar Citizen says the exact cost depends on water table depth, pipe length and pump brand. Pakistan Solar Traders says boreholes from under 100 feet to over 400 feet need different pumps and VFDs, and deeper ones typically a larger array.
• Date. Alpha Solar's table sits under a 2023 heading with a 2025 timestamp. Another installer, SunnyPath, asked Rs 1,420,000 in April 2024 for the same 18 panels, 11 kW VFD and L2 structure that Alpha Solar prices at Rs 910,000. The pages do not say whether date or scope explains the gap.
• Panels. Solar Citizen's panel price page, in October 2026, lists Tier-1 N-type TOPCon panels at about Rs 39.3 to 43.75 per watt, and TechJuice reported panels at Rs 21,255 to Rs 25,010 each. At that Rs 39.3 to 43.75 per watt, a 20 kW array, the size Feroze Power pairs with a 10 hp pump, is Rs 786,000 to Rs 875,000 of panels alone (our arithmetic).

How big is the array, and which VFD?

Panel wattage is not uniform. Solar With Price and Solar Z Price state 540 to 545 W. Pakistan Solar Traders states 580 to 620 W bifacial on its tube well page and 550 W on its VFD page, Solar Price Hub offers 540 W or 585 W, and Feroze Power states 535 W. N-type appears on none of the tube well price pages we read; Solar Citizen states it on its separate panel price page. Feroze Power is the outlier on size, pairing 20 kW with a 10 hp pump and 40 kW with a 20 hp pump.

For the drive, manufacturers and dealers disagree:

• INVT's own table (GD100-PV, 3-phase 380 V) lists 7.5 kW as 10 Hp, 11 kW as 15 Hp and 15 kW as 20 Hp, so its catalogue pairs a 10 Hp motor with a 7.5 kW drive. We found no manual that states a rule tying drive kW to the HP of a tube well pump.
• Veichi pairs each inverter with a pump of the same kW, and caps the array: its SI23-D5 11 kW drive accepts up to 14.3 kW of solar input and its 15 kW drive up to 19.5 kW. Check any quote's array against the drive's maximum.
• Dealers answer differently: Pakistan Solar Traders' VFD page pairs 11 kW with 10 to 12.5 HP, 15 kW with 15 to 20 HP, 18.5 kW with 20 HP and 22 kW with 25 HP, and says a 15 HP motor needs a minimum 15kW VFD. Solar Hub says never to buy a VFD that perfectly matches the motor size.

See the solar pump VFD selection guide for the manufacturer tables.

What water output should you expect?

Only Solar Citizen gives a daily output for each size: 30,000 to 45,000 gallons a day for 10 HP, 50,000 to 70,000 for 15 HP and 70,000 to 100,000 for 20 HP. Its page states no head and no sun-hour assumption, and none of the pages we read defines the gallon. No other seller in the tables above gives a gallons-per-day figure.

Output depends on head. The World Bank's report says water output is more or less indirectly proportionate to pumping head and more or less proportional to irradiation. The FAO and GIZ report says tenders should look at the water output for a defined solar irradiation and pumping head, not the power rating of the pump. Pakistan Solar Traders says systems typically run 6 to 8 effective hours a day, and IWMI says that for depths greater than 100 feet the cost of solar tube wells increases significantly and becomes uneconomical. Ask any seller for output at your own head.

Veichi's own Pakistan project pages give output while the pump is running, with no head: an 11 kW pump on a 13.5 kW array at Islamabad provides 8 cubic metres an hour, and a 7.5 kW pump on a 9.6 kW array at Lahore provides 5.

What about fuel savings?

We do not state a monthly saving, because sellers disagree widely and none shows the fuel burn and fuel price behind its figure. Pakistan Solar Traders says a diesel tubewell running 8 hours a day can cost a farmer well over PKR 100,000 a month in fuel alone during peak irrigation season, and its table gives a monthly running cost at 8 hours a day of often 60,000 to 150,000+ PKR. Solar Citizen says a 10 HP diesel pump consumes approximately PKR 15,000-40,000 in fuel per month depending on usage hours and diesel prices, Solar Z Price says Rs 15,000 to 40,000, and Solar With Price's table gives a diesel monthly running cost of Rs 20,000 to 50,000+. These are seller claims. Our diesel guide shows the sum from OGRA's diesel price and fuel-burn and pumping-hour data from older sources, including a 2003 IWMI survey.

Summary and Recommendations

• Treat every price here as an asking price on the date shown. Reconfirm before you buy.
• Ask for an itemised written quote: panel count and wattage, VFD kW and make, pump brand and HP, structure type, installation, and what is excluded, such as borewell work.
• Ask for the water output at your own head and sun hours, not at an unstated one.
• Check the array against the drive's maximum solar input.
• Compare like with like: pump included or not, L2 or pole structure, same date.
• See the 3HP and 5HP pump price guide for smaller systems.

Correction, 28 October 2026: earlier versions of this guide presented an "official system pricing table" citing a Punjab Agriculture Department web address that did not resolve when we checked on 28 October 2026, with system prices, a 585 W panel for every size, daily outputs and a monthly fuel saving that mostly could not be traced to the seller pages as stated. They have been replaced.