Industry & Processing
Keep your line running and cut the diesel bill.
When the grid drops, the line stops, batches spoil and the generator eats into your margin. We build solar, battery and generator systems that keep production moving and take a large share of diesel out of your costs, sized to the load we measure on your site.
1,400+ kWp
Installed across industry
4,074 kWp
Total solar installed
3,923 kWh
Battery installed
15
Years in East Africa
Energy is your most controllable production cost.
A processing plant depends on its uptime. Every outage halts the line, spoils a batch, leaves staff standing idle and forces a hard restart on motors and controls, while the diesel that fills the gap keeps getting more expensive. A well-engineered solar and battery system carries your process through those outages, takes a large share off the diesel bill and pays for itself within a few years. We start by logging what your plant actually consumes and size the system to that real load. Because we engineer, build and commission the whole system ourselves as a leading EPC contractor (engineering, procurement and construction) working since 2011, one team stays accountable from the first measurement to years of service.
20 to 30%
Typical return on investment
3 to 5 years
Typical payback
40 to 60%
Less diesel with a Backup system
1,400+ kWp
Installed across industry
Tea & Coffee Processing
Withering, drying and CTC (crush, tear, curl) lines pull heavy power all day, often on some of the weakest rural grids in the country.
Tea and coffee factories run long, power-hungry processing days, usually far from a strong grid. We size a hybrid system, where solar and battery work together with the grid and your existing generator, to the processing curve, so drying and processing keep running when the grid does not. Our largest hybrid system to date, 500 kWp of solar with 200 kWh of battery, runs the Kyamuhunga tea factory in Bushenyi.
- Covers the daytime processing load
- Works with your generator through long outages
- Sized to your real production curve
500 kWp
Kyamuhunga Tea system
+ 200 kWh
Battery on site
7 factories
Tea-sector advisory (GIZ)
40 to 60%
Less diesel with a Backup system
Dairy & Milk Processing
Chilling and processing never stop, and a single interruption can put a whole batch of milk at risk.
Dairy plants need uninterrupted power for chilling, pasteurising and processing. We connect solar with the grid and the generator so the cold chain and the process line never lose supply. At Jesa Farm Dairy, one of Uganda’s largest independent dairy processors, solar runs the continuous process loads by day, with the generators connected behind it as backup.
- Milk cooling that never stops
- Solar, grid and generator on one controller
- Protects continuous process loads
200 kWp
Jesa Farm Dairy system
2022
Commissioned
Food & Beverage
Processing, packing and refrigeration run through the day, which is exactly when solar produces most.
Food and beverage plants carry a steady daytime load that solar is well suited to cover, with battery backup protecting the cold chain and critical circuits. Systems can be delivered under a power purchase agreement (PPA), so you pay for the power rather than the hardware and start saving from day one. Sumz Food Industries in Nkoowe covers its full daytime process load this way.
- Daytime process load covered
- Cold-chain circuits protected
- Available with no upfront cost
250 kWp
Sumz Food system
303 kWp
Yalelo aquaculture
FMCG & Consumer Goods
Steady shift loads are a good match for solar that you use on site, paid for under a power purchase agreement.
Consumer-goods plants run consistent shift loads, which suits a solar system that runs alongside the grid and is sized so the plant uses everything it produces. Uganda does not pay commercial users for power fed back into the grid, so these systems are set to zero feed-in. At Everbrown Millers & Bakery we built systems on two neighbouring plants under a single agreement, and both pay less to the grid from their first day with nothing paid upfront.
- Runs alongside the grid, nothing exported
- Sized so you use every unit
- One agreement across several plants
120 kWp
Everbrown, two plants
75 kWp
Spouts of Water
Cold Chain & Logistics
Meat, fish and produce businesses depend on cold rooms that have to stay cold through every outage.
When the power goes, a cold room starts losing stock, so we put refrigeration and controls on protected circuits with battery backup and tie solar in with your existing generator. At Ranchers Finest, a Kampala meat processor, solar now carries the cold chain by day and the generators carry far less of it.
- Refrigeration on battery backup
- Works with your generator
- Critical circuits on their own protected supply
150 kWp
Ranchers Finest
2023
Commissioned
Some of the projects we have delivered
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.
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