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Solar and battery system at the Next Media Park broadcast campus in Kampala, Uganda

Institutions & Development

Reliable power, documented for funders.

UN agencies, NGOs, government offices and media houses need power they can rely on and reports their funders accept. We deliver both, from measuring the load to installation and long-term maintenance.

17+

Sites assessed & powered

4,074 kWp

Total solar installed

3,923 kWh

Battery installed

15

Years in East Africa

Why solar for institutions

Our engineering meets donor and development-finance standards.

Donors and development finance institutions (DFIs) expect documentation they can rely on, the same standard at every site and results they can measure. We have measured, designed, built and maintained systems for UN agencies, NGOs, embassies, government bodies and media houses, from single offices to nationwide programmes, and broadcast and other always-on operations get the backup they cannot go without.

UN & development finance

UN & Donor Programmes

We take programmes across many sites from the first feasibility study through installation and maintenance.

Solar at a UNICEF-supported health centre in Uganda

UN agencies and development partners need affordable, workable solar, backed by documentation they can rely on at every site. We measure the loads, work out a solution for each site and deliver at programme scale, from 250 UNICEF health centres to load, site and economic assessments for UNHCR refugee settlement sites with GIZ.

  • Feasibility study to installation and maintenance
  • Documentation to donor standards
  • The same standard at every site

250 sites

UNICEF programme

7 sites

UNHCR with GIZ

Field operations

NGO Field Operations

Compact systems keep field offices and community facilities running on weak grids.

Solar system at Toro Babies Home in Fort Portal, Uganda

NGO field operations run from scattered sites with unreliable grids and heavy generator use. We build solar backup for office clusters, community facilities and field offices, which cuts out generator hours and gives teams steady, quiet power. In Hoima, one system now powers a whole compound of DGB field offices without daily generator runs, and in Fort Portal a small system keeps the lights and phones on at Toro Babies Home.

  • Field offices and community facilities
  • Generator hours removed
  • Steady power for distributed teams

32 kWp

DGB field offices

+ 60 kWh

Battery backup

5 kWp

Toro Babies Home

+ 3.5 kWh

Battery at Toro Babies Home

Offices & embassies

Offices & Embassies

Offices, embassies and public buildings get dependable backup and clear monitoring.

Solar backup system at the GIZ country office in Nakasero, Kampala, Uganda

Offices and diplomatic missions need dependable backup that runs in stable zero feed-in mode, meaning nothing is exported to the grid, with clear monitoring and documentation ready for tender. We survey, measure, design and install office solar backup, and we diagnose and repair underperforming systems, as we have for several GIZ offices. For the Netherlands Embassy we assessed solar and EV charging across six residences.

  • Dependable office backup
  • Clean monitoring and reporting
  • Tender-ready documentation

40 kWp

GIZ Nakasero

+ 46 kWh

Battery backup

Always-on

Broadcast & Media

A station that broadcasts around the clock cannot afford a single moment off air.

Solar and battery backup at the Next Media Park broadcast campus in Kampala, Uganda

Broadcast and media houses run twenty-four hours a day and cannot go dark during transmission. We build solar and battery systems that take on the heavy daytime load and keep the station on air through outages, as at Next Media Park, home of NBS and Uganda’s largest independent media house. We also designed the extension of the Radio Pacis plant in Arua, up to 500 kWp.

  • Uninterrupted broadcast backup
  • Heavy daytime load reduced
  • Built for always-on operation

86 kWp

Next Media / NBS

+ 96 kWh

Battery backup

24/7

Broadcast covered

Up to 500 kWp

Radio Pacis design

Talk to us about your programme or facility.