The electricity consumption of tea factories varies significantly throughout the year. We accommodate this seasonality with our contracts, which have no minimum off-take obligations or fixed monthly payments. This means tea factories only pay based on the kWh that they have actually used. When you consume less power due to seasonality you will not have to pay for installed solar capacity which you are not using.
Equator Energy is Kenya’s market leader in Commercial and Industrial (C&I) solar power. We operate over 120 solar plants with a total capacity of over 50 MW of solar capacity. Of these 4.2 MW are installed at 9 tea plantations in Kenya and Uganda.
We can replace over 30 % of your annual electricity consumption with cheaper, cleaner solar energy.
You get the option to buy the solar plant at any time if you wish and we offer market leading pricing.
Our business model is simple and risk free: we design, build, operate, maintain and insure solar power plants at our own expense. This means, there is no investment required from our clients. We simply charge you an operation fee for the solar electricity that you use on a per kWh basis at a discount of 25 – 50 % on your grid rate.
The photos above show our solar power plants at Sotik Tea’s Arroket and Mettarora tea factories. The solar power plants are a mix of roof and ground mounted solar power plants. Each factory receives over 30 % of its electricity supply from our solar power plants. The graph below shows our solar supply (yellow) blending in with the factories KPLC supply (grey) over the course of two recent days.
~32% annual solar supply share
>12 million shillings annual electricity cost savings
Remote monitored and controlled by our operations centre 24/7/365
20 years operating, maintenance and monitoring by Equator Energy
14 days from delivery of equipment to commissioning by our 50+ member installation team
Remote monitored and controlled by our operations centre 24/7/365
Diesel-hybrid integrated to run with generators during KPLC outages
Intelligent online energy dashboard access custom designed for the client (see the load curve graph above)
1,658 kWp total installed solar capacity
4,250 mono-crystalline solar modules
Floor 13, office 1313
Applewood Building, Ngong Road
Nairobi, Kenya
+254 741 879 815
Kansanga - Kiwafu Road
Off Gaba Road
Kampala, Uganda
+256 740 111 999
2nd Floor, Résidence Lagane
Avenue Coumba Gawlo
Yoff, Dakar, Senegal
+221 77 715 96 86
