Knowledge Hub

Resources, notes and answers

Everything we can put in writing about running commercial and industrial energy systems in East Africa. Sector overviews and datasheets to download, notes from projects we have built, and answers to the questions clients actually ask us.

Downloads

By sector

One-page overviews of 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
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Powering Education
Lighting, computers, Wi-Fi and projectors all sit on the same supply. For schools and campuses weighing generator costs against solar.
PDF, 1 page
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Powering Hospitality
Guests notice power before they notice anything else. Written for hotels, lodges and restaurants carrying air conditioning, refrigeration and lifts.
PDF, 1 page
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Powering Manufacturing
Production needs power that is both affordable and consistent. Covers how solar sits alongside the grid and the generator on a processing site.
PDF, 1 page
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By system type

Product and technical documentation for our standard system packages.

Business Solutions datasheet
Our pre-configured commercial packages, delivered complete with every essential component, from design and installation through to maintenance.
PDF, 2 pages
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High Voltage Solutions datasheet
The high-voltage battery range with its full technical annex. The most detailed technical document we publish.
PDF, 8 pages
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Home Solutions
Complete packages for homes and small businesses. Our commercial and industrial work starts well above this range, but the residential systems share the same components and the same installation standard.
PDF, 2 pages
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Insights

Notes from projects we have built and 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. 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, sized for the full daytime process load and delivered under a PPA. Why the sizing worked out the way it did.
May 2026 · 3 min read
Project update
Solar on a site that never switches off
86 kWp of PV and 96 kWh of storage at Next Media Park in Kampala. 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