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Inverters & chargers
Power your home or business with confidence. Harness solar energy, store it safely, and keep essential systems running. Seamlessly integrate solar, battery backup, EV charging, and smart energy management with reliable solutions built to last.
Batteries
Advanced LiFePO₄ batteries for solar, backup and energy storage systems (ESS), with a range of C-ratings to suit different power demands. Explore low-voltage, high-voltage and dual-voltage options, with scalable multi-cluster configurations for growing energy needs.
Solar panels
Harness the sun with high-efficiency solar panels for homes, businesses and farms. Explore rooftop and ground-mounted solutions, bifacial modules that capture sunlight from both sides, and foldable portable panels from EcoFlow, Anker SOLIX and Jackery for convenient solar charging of compatible power stations during camping, travel and off-grid adventures.
Monitoring
Stay connected to your energy system with smart monitoring, intuitive displays, real-time telemetry and remote access. Track solar generation, battery status and energy consumption, review historical performance, receive alerts and manage compatible systems using solutions such as Victron GX devices, Victron VRM and TBB NOVA for smarter energy use and proactive maintenance.
Tech partners
Brands we trust
Inverters, batteries, solar panels, cabling and protection
- Victron Energy
- Fronius
- WECO
- ATESS
- Huawei
- TBB Power
- BYD
- Freedom Won
- Jinko Solar
- JA Solar
- LONGi
- Terasun
- Suntree
- East African Cables
- CFE
- Schneider Electric
- Telligen Energy
- Ecoflow
- Sollatek
Trusted across East Africa
Powering organisations that can't afford downtime
Hotels, universities, research institutes, NGOs and businesses
- University of Helsinki
- BBC East Africa
- International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
- ICIPE
- BDO East Africa
- Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG)
- Chloride Exide
- Kabarak University
- Peace Winds Japan
- Archipelagus
- Wildfire Flowers
- Seaclusion Diani
- Sebai Luxury Suites
- Vsquared Networks
- Gadgetronix
- Cleodhurst Ltd
- KUSCCO
System overview
How a hybrid solar system works
Illustration of how the parts of a system work together: solar array, battery storage, hybrid inverter and grid supply.
A day in a home in Nairobi
Illustration with approximate figuresModelled from public data: in October, Nairobi averages about 4.5 kWh of solar per kWp each day (Global Solar Atlas), with sunrise near 06:30 and sunset near 18:35. Grid power costs about KES 28 per kWh. Real results depend on roof, weather and habits.
broken clouds · 28°C
Nairobi now. About 92% cloud cover expected in daylight. Forecast from OpenWeather, refreshed every 3 hours.
Solar panels
1.0 kW
3 kWp array
Home
0.3 kW
10 kWh a day
Hybrid inverter
Charging battery
13:00
Grid
0 kW
About KES 28 per kWh
Battery
+0.7 kW
68% of 5 kWh
13:00 · solar 1.0 kW · home 0.3 kW
- Solar produced
- ≈ 6.9 kWh a day
- Bought from the grid
- ≈ 3.5 kWh a day
- Home use covered by solar
- ≈ 65%
- Approximate saving
- ≈ KES 5,500 a month
Assumptions behind these figures
From real data
- Solar yield for Nairobi in October: 4.46 kWh per kWp per day, the Global Solar Atlas long-term average (Solargis satellite data) at the county centre.
- Today's cloud cover for Nairobi from the OpenWeather forecast, hour by hour (see the hourly table). A clear hour follows a clear-day yield of about 5.9 kWh per kWp, reduced for cloud using the Kasten and Czeplak formula.
- Sunrise about 06:30 and sunset about 18:35, worked out from Nairobi's longitude. On the equator days last about 12 hours all year.
- Grid price about KES 28 per kWh (September 2026): the domestic energy charge of KES 18.57 (homes using over 100 kWh a month), about KES 4.16 in monthly pass-through charges, the REP and ERC levies and 16% VAT. Homes pay the same rate at every hour, so the hourly grid cost is simply kWh times that rate.
Assumed
- Home use follows a typical Kenyan pattern: early-morning and evening peaks and a fridge running all night. Your own bill will differ.
- Lithium battery kept between 10% and 100%, about 95% efficient each way, used before buying from the grid.
- The saving counts grid kWh avoided only. Monthly fixed charges and the cost of the system are not included.
Hourly table
Cloud cover is today's OpenWeather forecast for Nairobi. Grid cost is each hour's grid kWh at about KES 28 per kWh.
| Hour | Cloud | Solar kW | Home kW | Grid kW | Grid KES | Battery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 100% | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 6 | 10% |
| 01:00 | 100% | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 6 | 10% |
| 02:00 | 100% | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 6 | 10% |
| 03:00 | 100% | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 6 | 10% |
| 04:00 | 100% | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 6 | 10% |
| 05:00 | 89% | 0.00 | 0.30 | 0.30 | 8 | 10% |
| 06:00 | 89% | 0.00 | 0.85 | 0.85 | 24 | 10% |
| 07:00 | 89% | 0.10 | 0.77 | 0.67 | 19 | 10% |
| 08:00 | 93% | 0.30 | 0.43 | 0.13 | 4 | 10% |
| 09:00 | 93% | 0.60 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0 | 16% |
| 10:00 | 93% | 0.90 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0 | 27% |
| 11:00 | 95% | 1.00 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0 | 41% |
| 12:00 | 95% | 1.08 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 0 | 55% |
| 13:00 | 95% | 1.02 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0 | 68% |
| 14:00 | 96% | 0.78 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0 | 77% |
| 15:00 | 96% | 0.53 | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0 | 82% |
| 16:00 | 83% | 0.47 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 0 | 84% |
| 17:00 | 83% | 0.14 | 0.47 | 0.00 | 0 | 77% |
| 18:00 | 83% | 0.00 | 0.77 | 0.00 | 0 | 61% |
| 19:00 | 83% | 0.00 | 0.85 | 0.00 | 0 | 43% |
| 20:00 | 92% | 0.00 | 0.77 | 0.00 | 0 | 27% |
| 21:00 | 92% | 0.00 | 0.60 | 0.00 | 0 | 14% |
| 22:00 | 92% | 0.00 | 0.38 | 0.19 | 5 | 10% |
| 23:00 | 100% | 0.00 | 0.26 | 0.26 | 7 | 10% |
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