Syncon Energies, South Africa
Syncon Energies proposes a 50 MWp solar farm in George, harnessing optimal solar energy for the local network. By 2025, it aims to connect to the existing George Municipality grid, ensuring costs remain below Eskom’s Megaflex tariffs. Seeking support, endorsement, and technical collaboration, Syncon’s initial funding commitment transitions ownership to the municipality gradually.
SeaH4, South Africa
SeaH4 will farm seaweed along desert shores in land based ponds, to create biomass, which it turns into biogas via anaerobic digestion. The subsequent biogas is cleaned and then split into CH4( methane ) and CO2. The waste of the biogas is circled back into the ponds as fertiliser. The methane is liquefied into bioLNG as fuel for ships and the CO2 will serve as clean carbon molecule in the synthetisation with green hydrogen into e-methanol.
Evolve, South Africa
Evolve will be launching its Pilot Project for a Virtual Power Plant operating in the city of Cape Town municipal grid network. This VPP will aggregate hundreds of distributed energy resources in the form of batteries, rooftop solar and other and have intelligent algorithms controlling their dispatch to serve as generation sources, or control their demand to mitigate load on the grid. Through this VPP setup services such as critical backup or load mitigation can be provided to commercial customers aswell as later on ancillary services for the municipal grid.
S Mile Solutions, South Africa
The start-up, based in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, provides smart, small-scale and off-grid infrastructure solutions that are mounted on pick-up trucks, thereby enabling companies and institutions to access rural and remote communities with their services and products.
The aim of Smart Last Mile Solutions, (“S Mile”, for short), is to enable infrastructure-based services along the last mile and, to improve the living conditions and prospects of remote communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Keetmanshoop MSB
Keetmanshoop, a vibrant town in Namibia, envisions a future powered by sustainable energy. However, the realization of this vision faces a significant obstacle: limited financial resources. In response, the Keetmanshoop Municipal Service Board (MSB) is pioneering a groundbreaking initiative – the Modified Single Buyer (MSB) model.
The Keetmanshoop MSB project aims to leverage solar energy to meet the town’s power needs while navigating budgetary constraints. Unlike traditional models reliant on large-scale investment, the MSB model adopts a more flexible and community-centered approach. By aggregating demand and collaborating with local stakeholders, the MSB negotiates favorable terms with solar energy providers, maximizing cost-efficiency.
Millenium Engineers, Kenya
The project aims to modernize the low-income sardine fishing industry in Lake Victoria by replacing outdated practices with climate-adaptive technologies. Solar-powered fishing lamps and drying facilities are introduced to replace pressurized kerosene lamps and unhygienic drying methods. This transition not only provides sustainable alternatives but also reduces reliance on environmentally harmful practices. Key achievements include the distribution of 1000 efficient solar fishing lamps, co-designed with local fishers and attached to recycled plastic flotillas, as well as the establishment of five state-of-the-art solar drying facilities capable of processing 1.2 tons of sardines per day while using 70% less land space.
Microcare Energy, South Africa
Microcare has developed and designed a Modular Mini-Grid Solution to meet any single or three-phase mini-grid requirement from 30kW up to 1MW. Ideal for Containerised EBoP (Electrical Balance of Plant) and ESS (Energy Storage Systems), this locally manufactured product is the perfect solution for your energy requirements. This unique solution is rated in kW not KVA for maximum power, giving all the advantages of a parallel system (redundancy, being modular) without any of the disadvantages of a traditional parallel system (complicated installation, design, programming, unbalanced systems, slow changeover, load distribution throughout the Inverters, difficult DC wiring).
Impact Free Water, South Africa
Welcome to IFW, merging innovation and sustainability with our WEROP technology—a cutting-edge solution using ocean waves for seawater desalination, power production, and sea-farming. Ideal for island communities, WEROP is modular, perpetual, immune to island water table changes, and excels in remote operations, offering a game-changing, reliable, and sustainable solution.