We deliver solar power plants to our customers at zero up-front cost. We cover the entire cost of planning, construction, commissioning and operation of each solar power plant in our portfolio.
As we invest our own solar power plants, our customers can be sure that we invest in the right quality of and size of equipment. It also means, that our customers can be sure that we always make sure that all our solar power plants are well maintained and performing optimally.
We offer simple, purely pay-per-use contracts at fixed discounts or fixed rates. This means that every kWh of solar energy generated by a solar power plant delivers direct, guaranteed savings for our customers.
Our contracts have no fixed fees, no minimum charges and no take-or-pay, exchange rate or inflation clauses. This makes our solar solutions risk free for our customers. We also give customers the option to buy their solar power plants any time and at market leading prices.
This gallery shows most of our currently operating projects along with their capacity and location. We currently operate the largest commercial and industrial solar power portfolio in East Africa, making us the market leader in Kenya and all of East Africa.
Turk Mine, gold mine, Zimbabwe
Golden Quarry, gold mine, Zimbabwe
Fortuna Industries, factory, expansion, Kenya
Khetias Giga, supermarket, Kenya
Addison Industries 1, factory, Kenya
Halar Industries Sagana Road, factory, Kenya
Halar Industries Lunga Lunga Road, factory, Kenya
Cosmo Industries, factory, Uganda
Oxygas, factory, Uganda
Fabrication Systems, factory, Uganda
Biyinzika Poultry, livestock, Uganda
Makap, factory, Uganda
Majestic Mushrooms, farm, Kenya
AfroPlast, factory, Uganda
Milly Glass, factory, Kenya
KenSalt Malindi, factory, Kenya
Venice Mines, gold mine, Zimbabwe
KenSalt Malindi 6 x pump stations, Kenya
Doshi Water, factory, Kenya
Ndarawetta Tea Factory, tea factory, Kenya
Greenfields Tea, tea estate, Kenya (expansion)
Vipingo Ridge, estate, Kenya
Mau Tea , tea factory, Kenya
Kabianga Tea, tea estate, Kenya
Kiko Tea, tea factory, Uganda
Lemottit, flower farm, Kenya
Interconsumer products, factory, Kenya
Fortuna Industries, factory, Kenya
Khetias New Kabernet, factory, Kenya
Eslon Plastics 1, factory, Kenya
Elgon Tea, tea estate, Kenya
Advance Plastics, factory, Kenya
Khetias HQ Kitale, factory, Kenya
Maisha Millers, agriculture, Kenya
Tropic Center, retail, Gambia
Advanced Plastics, plastics factory, Kenya
Sintel, factory, Kenya
Shalem, factory, Kenya
Eslon Plastics 2, factory, Kenya
Buffalo Millers, agriculture, Kenya (expansion)
Ecoline, factory, Kenya
Kapi, factory, Kenya
Solai Nakuru, flower farm, Kenya
Metro Poly, plastics factory, Kenya
Brava Foods, beverages, Kenya
KenSalt, factory, Kenya
Sotik Arroket east, tea estate, Kenya
Sotik Arroket west, tea estate, Kenya
Rupa Mall, commercial site, Kenya
Sotik Mettarora, tea estate, Kenya
Shade Net, plastics factory, Kenya
Ken-Knit, factory, Kenya
Enkasiti, flower farm, Kenya
Sirikwa Quarry, construction, Kenya
Evergreen Athi River, agriculture, Kenya
Panocal International Ltd., horticulture, Kenya
Spinners & Spinners 2/3, factory (expansion 2021), Kenya
Maisha Beverages, factory, Kenya
Nyati Feeds, animal feeds, Kenya
Utee, expansion, flower farm, Kenya (expansion by 65 kW)
KenSalt, factory, Kenya
Buffalo Millers, agriculture, Kenya
TAI Enterprises, construction, Kenya
Lakhir Plastics, factory, Kenya
Enkasiti, flower farm, Kenya
RH Devani DMC, factory, Kenya
R&R Plastics, factory, Kenya
Enkasiti, flower farm, Kenya
Enkasiti, flower farm, Kenya
Kikwetu Flowers, horticulture, Kenya
Heritage, horticulture, Kenya
Sagana Tanneries, factory, Kenya
NEC, grid operator, Somaliland
ENEE, grid operator, Somalia
Danco Plastics, factory, Kenya (expansion 350 kW )
Pyramid Packaging, factory, Kenya
ENEE, grid operator, Somalia
Eco Roses, flower farm, Kenya (expansion by 120 kW)
Maua Agritech, flower farm, Kenya
Laurel, flower farm, Kenya
UEA Baraton, university, Kenya
KIP Brands, factory, Kenya
UEA Baraton, university, Kenya
Tatu City, industrial park, Kenya
Spinners & Spinners 1, factory, Kenya (expansion 450 kW)
Spinners & Spinners 2, factory, Kenya
Danco Plastics, factory, Kenya (expansion 250 kW)
Batian, flower farm, Kenya
Thorntree, hotel, Somalia
Waridi & Fresh Catch, rose and fish farm, Kenya
Black Petals, flower farm, Kenya
Sun Floritech, flower farm, Kenya
Eco Roses, flower farm, Kenya
Kubali, herb farm, Kenya
Golden Tulip, flower farm, Kenya
Tulaga, flower farm, Kenya
Utee, flower farm, Kenya
Nelion, flower farm, Kenya
Danco Plastics, factory, Kenya
Spinners & Spinners 1, factory, Kenya
Acacia Village, hotel, South Sudan
VSS, office & camp, South Sudan
WLC, logistics base, South Sudan
ETC, camp, South Sudan
Burn Manufacturing, factory, Kenya
Groove Flowers, flower farm, Kenya
Venice Mines, residential, Zimbabwe
Venice Mines, residential, Zimbabwe
We use an in-house developed system for the monitoring of all our plants. We call this system Energy.Dashboard. It is manufacturer independent and runs on the powerful Microsoft PowerBI business intelligence platform. This system allows us to monitor unlimited devices and present the data in a clear, intuitive, and fully customizable way.
We can integrate nearly limitless data sources into our dashboards. This means we can provide our customers with a single dashboard that not only captures their electricity consumption but also correlates this to the overall performance of the business. Customers can for example determine how many kWh of electricity per hotel guest or per exported bunch of roses they have used.
The sample dashboard alongside is interactive. You can expand it to full-screen mode and select different pages and specific time frames. The dashboard is based on a actual data from some of our solar plants and updates every day at 09:30 EET.
We are specialized in delivering solar solutions in emerging and frontier markets. These are some of the markets where solar power can add the most value. We thrive under the challenges these markets present.
We operate in remote locations, harsh environments, under regulatory restrictions and challenging security conditions. We deliver high end solar systems under the most difficult circumstances . We manage the risks and opportunities of our markets and we tailor our solar solutions to them accordingly.
Equator Energy is supported by a group globally active, outstanding investors.
Our shareholders and lenders have decades of experience in renewable energy and Africa, are leading in their field.
Our shareholders are invested in Equator Energy for the long term just like we are in our projects. This allows us to deliver the best possible value to our customer and builds the foundation of our long term business relationships.
IBL Energy is a subsidiary of IBL group, a 1 b$ market cap public company. Over 150 years old, IBL is the largest Mauritian conglomerate with activities in 18 countries.
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STOA is a leading impact investor in energy and infrastructure. The 600 m¤ fund was founded in 2017 by the French development agency and a bank.
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Maris because Equator Energy’s first investor in 2016. The 100 m$ investment company is active in nine Sub-Saharan African countries in renewable energy, agriculture and other divisions.
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Nvision founded Equator Energy in 2015, when the European renewable energy company entered the Kenyan market. Nvision is managed by its founders Margita and Sebastian Noethlichs.
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Equator Energy believes in simple solutions and clear, straightforward business. Our contracts follow transparent industry standards. Our technology is tried and tested. Our value proposition to you is simple and solid.
Our business is guided by a few simple but powerful concepts. Have a look at them below.
Our solar energy solutions pay for themselves. They deliver energy that is cheaper than the energy you buy from the grid or get from your on-site generator. We guarantee this.
When you take over a solar plant, we make sure the investment pays off.
Our solar energy solutions are tested, reliable and secure. When we sell you energy, there is no investment and no risk for you. We undertake all investments, installation, maintenance, and servicing work. When you take over a solar plant, it comes with comprehensive warranties and free lifetime monitoring by us.
We design our solar plants to fit your needs. We offer solutions from simple grid-tied systems to solar-diesel hybrid systems. Our plants' peak-power output and total energy production are carefully matched to your needs and integrated on-site. We 'right-size' our plants because we sell you kWh not kW.
Equator Energy is a fully integrated solar power provider. This means that the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of its solar power plants is done in-house. The team consists of over 40 Kenyan installers, all of whom have many years of installation experience, for both ground and roof mounted solar systems. Further to the core team in Kenya and Uganda, Equator Energy also has regional staff in South Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe.
For regular operation and maintenance, small sub-teams can travel both domestically and internationally to each of the solar plants on an ad-hoc basis. Equipped with the necessary tools and supplies, they are supported by the company's 12/7 remote, online monitoring staff, all of whom also have hands-on project installation experience. Spare-part inventories are held both at the headquarters in Nairobi, as well as on the more remote project sites across Africa, in order to make our maintenance service as efficient and effective as possible for our customers.
Solar power contributes significantly to reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. In our markets solar power plants save from around 0.7 to well over 2.0 kg of CO2 per kWh depending on their application.
Solar power does not require water. Where solar energy replaces energy from thermal power plants. A 400 kW solar power plant saves an average of 1 million liters of water every year.
On a very immediate and local level, solar power plants directly improve the environment around them. Noise and air pollution by generators along with soil contamination from fuel and oil spillage are eliminated and living conditions are often dramatically improved.
Equator Energy follows a comprehensive set of environmental, sustainability and governance policies and standards.
You can find our public anti-bribery policy here.
For any governance related questions, comments or concerns you can reach out to us at governance@equator.energy
You can also anonymously report any incidents that you believe should be addressed by us to this email: whistleblower@equator.energy
In this section we answer some of the most frequent questions that we hear from our future customers.
The answer is: most likely yes. We can offer cost-competitive solar solutions in almost all locations within our markets. There are, however, a number of technical details that we need to check. We do this as part of our free solar audit. For example, we need to review your current electricity consumption and how it varies throughout the day, week, month and year. We will also have to determine how much suitable space you have available for a solar power system and how complex the integration of the system will be at your site.
Once we have these details we prepare a preliminary design. If the result is positive, we make you a firm offer for buying or leasing the solar system from us.
The sunnier it is at a location, the higher your savings will be. Also, the more you rely on diesel for your electricity consumption, the higher your savings will be. Another factor is how simple or complex the integration of our solar system will be at your site.
We review all these and other factors during our solar audit. We then use them in our preliminary design to make you a firm offer with an exact solar rate and predictable savings.
With a regular grid-tied solar power system we can typically replace up to 50% of your current electricity consumption with cheaper, clean solar energy. The more of your electricity is consumed during the daytime, the higher the solar share will be.
With net-metering systems we replace anywhere between 50% and almost 100% of your energy consumption with solar energy. How much of your energy consumption can come from solar power depends on the net-metering regulations in your country.
This depends on whether net-metering is currently allowed in your country.
If not, we will design the solar power system as a captive system that never feeds electricity back into the public power grid. If it is allowed now, then you can feed our solar electricity back into the public grid and get paid for it.
If net-metering becomes an option in the future, we will let you know. We can then discuss expanding the solar power system, so that you generate additional solar electricity to sell it to the grid at a profit.
Getting started is simple. Write to us or just give us a call.
We will then arrange to get started on your free solar audit with you and take it from there. Within a few months after that you can start to save on energy costs with one of our solar power systems.
From the free solar audit it usually takes us less than two weeks to complete our preliminary design and make you a firm offer. Once the firm offer has been accepted and the solar agreement has been signed, we typically have your system shipped to your site and installed within around three to four months.
That means, best case, we can get you started on energy cost savings with one of our solar systems within around four months from when you first contact us.
Yes. Our solar agreements give you the option to purchase the solar power system from us whenever you like. The prices for this are clearly set out in the agrement. Once you purchase the system it becomes yours and you will not have to pay us anything for the solar energy anymore.
This means that if you are interested in purchasing a solar power system, our solution gives you the option to 'test drive' the solar power plant at no risk first, while benefitting from the savings it generates for you in the meantime.
Our solar agreements come with a standard 20-year term for both grid-tied and hybrid systems. For the whole term we guarantee you energy cost savings and we make sure that the solar system keeps on working smoothly. You also get the option to extend the term by 5 years twice.
Importantly, under our solar agreements you only pay for the energy you actually use. This means if your energy consumption drops during any part of the term, we will not force you to buy energy from us that you do not need. There is no risk for you.
This is not a problem. We can either move the solar power system to your new site with you or the new owner of the factory or site can take over from you. Since our solar power system will save energy expenses for the future buyer, you may even be able to get a higher sales price with our system than without.
When you work with us, we offer you a simple, zero up-front cost way to benefit from cheaper solar energy. We are experienced and our solar power systems are tried and tested. Because we will own and operate the solar systems ourselves, we will never compromise on quality.
Working with us, means you need to deal with only one party, Equator Energy. We deliver a turn-key, hassle free solution.
We have over a decade of experience with commercial and industrial scale solar system. We have built the exact same solar systems before and we own and operate our own solar systems across frontier and emerging markets in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
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The way to your own solar energy system only takes a few simple steps outlined below.
1. Free solar audit
Once you contact us, we will arrange a free on-site consultation with you. Together with you, our team will gather all necessary information so that we can make you a firm offer for your own solar power system. We will review your energy needs and determine which type of system fits those needs best. We will also have a look at your roof and other suitable areas for the installation of the system so that we can complete a preliminary design.
2. Preliminary design and firm offer
Next our engineers get to work. With the information from the on-site consultation we produce a preliminary design for your solar power system. Based on this preliminary design we will make a firm offer to you. In this firm offer we will specify the type, power, size and location of the solar power system we offer you. The offer will set out the solar rate, your purchase options and the savings the system will generate for you.
3. Sign your solar agreement
After you accept our firm offer, we will conclude a solar agreement with you. Our standard agreement is a simple, one page agreement that is based on industry standards and adapted to your local market where needed. In parallel to this we will also complete our financial due diligence to approve your project with our credit committee.
4. Design and permitting work
Once the solar agreement has been signed, we complete the detailed design of the solar plant down to every screw and cable. We will obtain all, if any, necessary permits and licenses for the installation of the plant.
Lastly, we will order and ship all components of the solar power system to your site and agree on an installation date with you.
5. Installation and commissioning
The installation of the solar system is fast. Captive and net-metering systems under 400 kW can usually be installed and commissioned by our team in under a week. During the installation we make sure that we create minimal nuisance for you and do not get in the way of your work.
6. Pay less for your energy
When the solar power system is commissioned it is time for you to flick the switch. From this moment onwards, whenever the sun shines you will be getting cheaper, clean solar energy from us.
You can check on your savings and solar energy consumption online, on your mobile and, of course, on-site. Every month we will send you a detailed report of the solar production and your savings.
7. Monitoring and maintenance
We monitor all of our solar power systems 24/7 to make sure everything is running smoothly. Our solar power systems are extremely robust and reliable and require minimal maintenance. When something needs attention, we dispatch a maintenance and repair team.
If you like, we will also, free of charge, monitor your overall energy consumption for you. That way we can help you spot trends and changes in your energy consumption and identify opportunities for further savings.
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Applewood Building, Ngong Road
Nairobi, Kenya
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Kampala, Uganda
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