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Delivering Sustainable Remote Power to Dohoue Community: ENGIE Energy Access’ First Mini-Grid in Benin 

Our heartfelt thanks to the ENGIE Energy Access team for selecting SustainSolar’s turnkey power system to help electrify Dohoue community in the Zogbodomey (Benin). SustainSolar supplied a 90 kW/130 kWh ...

Empowering Health: SUSTAIN BOXES™ Lighting the Way for Malawi’s Clinics 

Installed during late 2022 and early 2023 by International Power Control Systems (IPCS), the SUSTAIN BOXTM systems powering these two health clinics have to date provided off-grid renewable power with ...

SustainSolar and Equatorial Power Bring Life-Saving Solar Power to Off-Grid Health Clinics in Uganda

In remote communities of Uganda’s Lake Victoria region, innovative solutions are required to help those in need. Recognising this reality, SustainSolar and Equatorial Power have successfully electrified five off-grid health ...

Strengthening Healthcare on the Lake Victoria Islands of Uganda

Through our fully integrated, turn-key standalone cabinet power system, the SUSTAIN BOX™, SustainSolar and local partner Equatorial Power have electrified five last-mile rural health clinics on the islands of Lake ...

A recap of #EnlitAfrica2022

Last month, SustainSolar joined various industry players, at Enlit Africa 2022. Formally known as Africa Utility Week. Enlit Africa is the leading conference across the continent to facilitate networking, business ...

Green Bitcoin Mining: A game changer for mini-grids in Africa?

Achieving universal energy access is a mammoth task which requires continuous innovation by mini-grid companies regarding technology and business models. The largest challenge to be addressed by innovation is the ...

Highlights on the positive Impact of SustainSolar’s Mthambanji mini-grid in Dedza, Malawi

Its been almost two years since the commissioning of the Mthambanji mini-grid, we look back at some of the positive social and economic impacts SustainSolar’s product, the SUSTAIN COMPACT™ has ...

SustainSolar launches a plug-and-play integrated battery energy storage cabinet solution, the SUSTAIN BOX™

Innovation is at the core of our business to continuously respond to the challenges in the enrgy sector and meet our clients’ needs.  SustainSolar is thrilled to present the latest ...

SustainSolar proudly supports a Solar PV installation at the NEX- Indawo Yethu Centre.

SustainSolar is honoured to have supported HOPE Cape Town with the installation of the SolarPV system at The Nex - indawo yethu (Delft, Cape Town). The project was successfully launched ...

SustainSolar’s 40 kWp was successfully commissioned as the country’s first interconnected mini-grid in Kiwumu (Uganda)

In 2020, a coalition of energy companies launched an integrated clean energy pilot to test new ways of accelerating energy access, stimulating customer demand and improving grid performance in Uganda. ...

SustainSolar joins forces with Siemens to support South Africa’s Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in East London in the fight against Covid-19

Mid-February this year, SustainSolar expanded its footprint electrifying health services by adding yet another hospital project to its portfolio, this time in its home country of South Africa – a ...

SustainSolar’s innovative asset leasing construction finance tools will help developers build scalable mini-grid portfolios.

Committed to the pursuit of universal energy access in Africa, SustainSolar has joined the competitive European Programme GET.invest, an energy finance "accelerator" now supporting development of our innovative asset leasing ...

A successful installation of SustainSolar’s first two units for mini-grid operator OnePower in Lesotho

Power Africa, a U.S Government-led initiative, awarded $2.6m worth of grants across 9 countries, to electrify 300 primary healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Containerised solar system supplier SustainSolar has won ...

After a slow year for electrification, 2020 ends with a full workshop and promising pipeline for SustainSolar, greatly supported by innovative mini-grid asset leasing offering

The contraction of the global economy paired with far-reaching travel restrictions during most of 2020 did not only slow down many industrial sectors but also had a significant impact on ...

SustainSolar delivers 7 turnkey systems to OnePower as part of Power Africa’s Beyond the Grid initiative in Lesotho

Mid-September 2020, OnePower Lesotho (1PWR), a mini-grid developer working in Lesotho with the mission to bring electricity to underserved communities, was announced as one of the winners of Power Africa’s ...

Sustain Extended solar system on its way to Uganda: one of the first milestone projects of the Utility 2.0 coalition

In mid-September 2020, another Sustain Extended turn-key solar solution left SustainSolar’s workshop in  Cape Town, South Africa to its mini-grid partner Equatorial Power in Uganda. Packed in a 40 foot ...

Switch on for the First EASE Mini-grid by SustainSolar

Following Covid-19 related delays, July 2020 saw the successful commissioning and final testing of the first SustainCompact™ containerized solar generation unit as a mini-grid under the Rural EASE (Energy Access ...

Clean energy provider SustainSolar and mini-grid developer Equatorial Power join forces for another solar mini-grid on Idjwi Island, DRC

Despite the challenges of covid-19 lockdown, SustainSolar, an Africa-focused solar photovoltaic (PV) off-grid system integrator and provider of turn-key solutions for rural electrification, recently started working on a containerized off-grid ...

Green SMMEs growing economic opportunity in Cape Town

In May, Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, Alderman James Vos, visited green SMMEs, observing all health and safety protocols, with GreenCape, one of the City’s Strategic ...

SustainSolar launches Emergency Intervention Off-Grid Solar Unit to fight Covid-19

At a time when governments and health organizations are calling for increased capacity for testing and treatment in response to the coronavirus pandemic, SustainSolar launches a special campaign to provide ...

Local Clean Energy SustainSolar goes to South Sudan

Aptech Africa, solar energy and water solution specialists, recently successfully designed, built and installed the first off-grid solar-battery-hybrid power system in South Sudan. This USAID funded project, developed by AECOM ...

SustainSolar Delivers Mini-Grid to Remote School in Malawi

We are proud to announce that we have just finished the installation of a solar power mini-grid at the Sokola Village School in the remote mountains of Malawi. The mini-grid ...

SustainSolar and PWRstation launched Sustain Flex at African Utility Week

Introducing the containerised, expandable solar solution for clean, secure, off-grid power Up until quite recently, the number of people around the world without electricity was around one billion, and even ...

SustainSolar – The new containerised solar energy innovation makes market entrance

Sustainable Power Generation (Pty) Ltd recently introduced its new containerised solar power solution - SustainSolar - for the African market. Sustainable Power Generation, a South African clean energy company that ...

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