Knowledge Hub
Resources, notes and answers
Everything we can put in writing about running commercial and industrial energy systems in East Africa. You can download sector overviews and datasheets, read notes from projects we have built, and find answers to the questions clients actually ask us.
Downloads
By sector
Each one-page overview explains what solar changes for a specific kind of operation.
Powering Health
Hospitals run around the clock, and an outage reaches life-support, cold chain and theatre. This one-pager covers what a solar and battery system protects in a health facility.
PDF, 1 page
Powering Education
Lighting, computers, Wi-Fi and projectors all sit on the same supply. This one-pager is for schools and campuses weighing generator costs against solar.
PDF, 1 page
Powering Hospitality
Guests notice power before they notice anything else. This one-pager is written for hotels, lodges and restaurants that run air conditioning, refrigeration and lifts.
PDF, 1 page
Powering Manufacturing
Production needs power that is both affordable and consistent. This one-pager covers how solar works alongside the grid and the generator on a processing site.
PDF, 1 page
By system type
These documents cover the products and technical details of our standard system packages.
Business Solutions datasheet
This datasheet covers our pre-configured commercial packages, delivered complete with every essential component, from design and installation through to maintenance.
PDF, 2 pages
High Voltage Solutions datasheet
This covers our high-voltage battery range with its full technical annex, and it is the most detailed technical document we publish.
PDF, 8 pages
Home Solutions
These are complete packages for homes and small businesses. Our commercial and industrial work starts well above this range, but the residential systems use the same components and the same installation standard.
PDF, 2 pages
Insights
These are notes from projects we have built, and short briefs on the engineering decisions behind them.
Project update
Seven years, three systems, and a CT scanner at Naggalama
A hospital relationship that started with 12 kWp in 2019 now carries a CT scanner through grid interruptions. Here is what changed at each step, and why.
June 2026 · 4 min read
Project update
What full daytime cover actually looks like at a food processor
A 250 kWp grid-tied system at Sumz Food Industries in Nkoowe covers the full daytime process load and was delivered under a PPA. Here is why the sizing worked out the way it did.
May 2026 · 3 min read
Project update
Solar on a site that never switches off
Next Media Park in Kampala has 86 kWp of PV and 96 kWh of storage. Broadcast runs 24 hours a day, which changes what a solar system has to be.
April 2026 · 3 min read
Technology brief
Why we specify LFP over NMC on weak grids
A battery on a weak Ugandan grid works harder than the same battery in a stable market. Chemistry choice follows from that, and so does service life.
June 2026 · 4 min read
Technology brief
Zero feed-in: what it means when the grid will not take your surplus
Uganda has no net metering for commercial and industrial users. That single fact shapes how every grid-tied system on this site gets sized.
March 2026 · 3 min read
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