Equator Solar consulting workshop with GIZ on solar and energy efficiency for industry in Uganda

Advisory

Energy Audits and Consulting

We measure your power use, assess grid reliability, build financial models and produce feasibility studies that banks and funders accept. Clients include GIZ, UNICEF, UNHCR, SNV and Heifer International.

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Advisory studies

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Health centres assessed

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DFI partners

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Countries covered

Why consulting

We measure before we recommend. Every time.

Most solar quotes are guesses. We log your actual power use for one to four weeks, check how often the grid fails, and build a financial model on your real numbers. Our reports work for your board, your bank and for development finance institutions.

1 to 4 weeks

Power use measured

Real numbers

Financial model

3 to 6 months

Study timeline

Bankable

Reports funders accept

What we cover

Four ways we de-risk your energy decision.

Load profiling · grid reliability

Energy Audits & Assessments

One to four weeks of measured load and grid-failure data, so the system is sized against reality rather than a guess.

Energy assessment at a health centre in Uganda

Load profiling and grid reliability assessment before any system is specified, typically one to four weeks of measured data rather than a single site visit. We log how often the grid actually fails, not just its rated capacity. The result is a system sized against real consumption, not a guess.

  • One to four weeks of measured data
  • Real grid-failure frequency logged
  • System sized to actual consumption

1 to 4 wk

Measurement window

Measured

Not estimated

Load + grid

Both profiled

Right-sized

System output

Payback · IRR · NPV · LCOE

Feasibility & Financial Modelling

Payback, IRR, NPV and LCOE built on your measured load, structured to satisfy your board and a development-bank reviewer alike.

Feasibility study site for an agricultural solar project in East Africa

Payback period, IRR, NPV and LCOE modelling built on your measured load data, not assumed figures. Reports are structured to work for your own board as well as banks and development finance institutions reviewing the same numbers. Used on studies for GIZ, UNICEF and Heifer International, among others.

  • Built on measured load, not assumptions
  • Board-ready and bank-ready
  • Proven with GIZ, UNICEF, Heifer

4 metrics

Payback, IRR, NPV, LCOE

Bankable

DFI-grade

Real data

Model basis

40+

Studies delivered

Owner's engineer · tender support

Project Support & Owner's Engineer

Independent technical eyes on your procurement and build, keeping the installing contractor accountable to the original design.

Owner's engineer supervision at a solar research installation in Kisumu

Technical oversight and tender support on the client's behalf during procurement and installation, when you're contracting a system but want independent technical eyes on the process. Covers tender document review, bid evaluation and site supervision through commissioning. Keeps the installing contractor accountable to the original design.

  • Tender review and bid evaluation
  • Site supervision to commissioning
  • Contractor held to the design

Independent

On your side

Tender

To commissioning

Full

Technical oversight

Accountable

Contractor kept

Programme-level · policy

Strategic, Policy & Resilience Advisory

Energy resilience and policy planning for multi-site operations and institutions planning at programme level, not one building.

GIZ strategy workshop on eco-industrial park energy in Uganda

Energy resilience planning and policy advisory for multi-site operations and institutional clients managing more than one location. Includes work on eco-industrial park development models with GIZ and UIA-Mbale, and country-wide feasibility studies such as NWSC's boreholes solarization roadmap. Suited to clients planning at a programme level, not a single building.

  • Multi-site and programme planning
  • Policy and resilience roadmaps
  • Proven on GIZ and NWSC programmes

Multi-site

Scope

Country-wide

Studies delivered

Policy

Advisory

Programme

Level

How an engagement runs

Measure, model, report.

Every engagement follows the same path, so the recommendation you get is grounded in your own data and ready for whoever needs to approve it.

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Measure

We log your actual power use and grid reliability over one to four weeks on site.

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Model

We build the financial case on those real numbers: payback, IRR, NPV and LCOE.

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Report

You get a bankable document structured for your board, your bank and development funders.

1 to 4 wk

Measurement

3 to 6 mo

Study timeline

Bankable

Output

40+

Studies delivered

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