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Electrical engineering & solar energy
We design and install solar systems for homes, commercial premises and industrial sites — sized against measured consumption rather than a rule of thumb, and documented so anyone competent can inspect or extend the work.
Services
Solar and the electrical work around it, from the array on the roof to the board it lands in.
Design, supply and installation of grid-tied and hybrid solar systems for homes, offices and industrial sites.
Battery-backed solar for load shedding, and standalone systems where a reliable grid connection is not available.
Design, documentation and application support for net metering, so surplus generation is exported and credited.
Load calculations, protection design, earthing, distribution boards and control panels for commercial and industrial sites.
Operations and maintenance for solar systems, plus energy audits, power quality investigation and power factor improvement.
Local coverage, LESCO net metering, and how we approach work in the city.
Sectors
The engineering changes with the site. A single-phase house and a three-phase factory share a technology and almost nothing else.
Single-phase supply, air conditioning through the summer, and a bill that has become a planning problem. Sized against what the house actually draws, not its roof area.
Offices, retail, clinics and schools, where consumption happens in daylight and generation lines up with it — the load profile solar suits best.
Three-phase supply, motor loads, starting currents and power-factor penalties. The electrical scope here is as much of the job as the array.
Tube wells and farm infrastructure, where supply is often weak or absent and the honest answer may be off-grid rather than on-grid.
Inside a system
A solar system is a chain, and it is only as good as the stage a proposal leaves out. This is what ours contains, in the order energy moves through it.
Panels, structure and layout, set by orientation, shading and the roof they are actually going on.
Matched to the array and to the connection phase, with headroom for the way the site loads it.
DC and AC isolation, surge protection, and an earthing arrangement designed rather than assumed.
The existing board inspected and corrected, so generation is not added to a problem already there.
Bi-directional metering where net metering applies, and monitoring so output can be checked against design.
Handover
The documentation is part of the work, not an extra. It is also the fastest way to judge a quotation you have been given by someone else — ask which of these they hand over.
The installation as built rather than as proposed, so the next person to open the board is not reading it for the first time.
Devices, ratings and the earthing arrangement, written down — the record that makes a future fault diagnosable.
Insulation resistance, earth continuity, polarity and the inverter’s commissioning parameters, recorded at handover.
Datasheets, serial numbers and manufacturer warranty paperwork, registered in your name rather than ours.
How to read your own output, and what a normal day looks like for a system of your size in this season.
What to check yourself each month, what to watch for, and the point at which something needs an engineer rather than a look.
Cost
We publish no price list, because a figure quoted before a survey is a figure that changes after one. What we can set out honestly is the shape of the cost — which is also what lets you read anyone else’s quotation properly.
The largest single factor. Sizing accurately is the cheapest saving available, and oversizing is the most common way to pay for generation you never use.
Usually the most expensive part of a hybrid system, and driven by the hours of backup you ask for rather than by the size of the array.
On-grid or hybrid, single or three phase, and how much headroom the design leaves for the way the site loads it.
Flat roofs need frames and ballast, elevated structures need engineering, and wind loading is a design input rather than an afterthought.
Distance from array to inverter to board, penetrations, trenching and containment. Quiet on a quotation, real on a site.
Where the board, earthing or protection needs remedial work before generation can be added safely, that work is priced rather than skipped.
Electrical and power systems
An array is a generator bolted onto an existing installation, and the installation decides whether that is safe. We take this scope on its own, for sites with no solar in the plan at all.
Connected and diversified load, cable sizing, voltage drop, and a single-line diagram that matches what was built.
Distribution boards and low-tension panels specified, built, installed and labelled — including replacing boards that are no longer fit to extend.
Breaker selection and discrimination, earthing and bonding, and surge protection where the exposure justifies it.
Capacitor banks sized from measured power factor, to remove the penalty an industrial bill quietly carries.
Essential-load segregation, changeover and transfer arrangements, and integration of inverters or generators into the existing supply.
Load profiling, voltage and harmonic checks, thermal inspection of connections, and a written list of what to fix first.
Planning figures
Published because a figure you can check is worth more than one you have to trust. Each is a conservative planning assumption for this region, not a promise about your site — the survey is what turns it into a real number.
Process
Four steps between an enquiry and a commissioned system. Nothing is priced before the site has been seen.
Your consumption, its daily shape, and your connection phase.
Roof structure, orientation, shading, cable routes, and the condition of the existing installation.
Array layout, protection, earthing, and a documented single-line diagram.
Installation, testing, commissioning, and as-built documentation at handover.
Choosing
The first decision, and the one that moves cost the most. What follows is true of the system type itself; the trade-offs for your site are what the survey settles.
| System type | During an outage | Batteries | Net metering | Typically suited to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-grid | Shuts down with the grid | None | Yes — surplus is exported | Sites that consume in daylight and want the lowest cost per kW |
| Hybrid | Carries essential loads from batteries | Yes — sized to the backup hours needed | Yes, where the design and approval allow | Homes and premises that cannot simply stop when supply does |
| Off-grid | Unaffected — there is no grid to lose | Yes — sized for autonomy, the largest cost in the system | Not applicable | Sites with no supply, or supply too poor to build on |
System sizes
Roughly 120 units of monthly consumption per kW, as a planning figure.
Aftercare
A solar system is a twenty-five year asset. Most of what determines whether it behaves like one happens after the installers have left.
Soiling costs output quietly, and a scheduled look at mountings, cable management and connections catches what a monitoring app cannot.
The point of a designed system is that there is a figure to compare against. A shortfall is a fault to find, not a season to accept.
Connections checked for heating, protection devices tested, earthing verified — the parts of a system that fail without announcing it.
Capacity and state of health tracked over time, so a bank that is degrading is known about before the evening it stops carrying the load.
Including systems we did not install. An installation nobody will return to is a common outcome here, and it is a fixable one.
When something is changed, added or replaced, the diagram and records change with it — otherwise they stop being true within a year.
Why us
We are an electrical engineering business that installs solar, rather than a solar business that hires electricians. Every line here is something we control and do, so you can hold us to it.
The size comes from measured consumption
Bills, units and the daily shape of the load. A system sized from roof area or from a neighbour’s installation underperforms in exactly the hours that matter.
The existing installation is inspected first
Generation added to undersized protection or poor earthing makes an existing problem worse. Where remedial work is needed, it is quoted rather than skipped.
Protection, earthing and cabling are designed
Not inherited from the last job. Each is calculated for the site, and the calculation is part of what is handed over.
The work is documented at handover
Single-line diagram, protection design and as-built documentation, so another competent engineer can inspect, maintain or extend it without reverse-engineering it.
We say when solar is not the answer
Some sites need their wiring corrected, their tariff reviewed or their power factor fixed before generation is worth discussing.
Guides
Plain explanations of the things that decide whether a system is worth installing — written to be useful even if you never contact us.
Guide
A plain explanation of net metering in the LESCO region — what it is, what the application requires, and where timelines actually go.
Guide
Why a headline price per kW is misleading, and the six factors that actually determine what a solar system costs.
Guide
The three system types compared on cost, outage behaviour and complexity — with the one question that usually decides it.
It depends on how much electricity you use and when you use it. As a planning figure, roughly 120 units of monthly consumption per kW of system. The sizing estimator applies that to your own bill or meter readings, and an engineer verifies it against the site before any proposal.
Rarely completely. Solar offsets consumption while the sun is up. Evening and overnight use still draws from the grid unless batteries are included, and most connections retain fixed charges regardless of consumption.
Only if the system is designed for it. A standard grid-tied system shuts down during an outage as a mandatory safety measure. A hybrid system with batteries keeps selected circuits running.
Modules are typically warranted for decades with a gradual decline in output, and inverters have a shorter service life than modules. Actual longevity depends as much on installation quality, mounting and maintenance as on the modules themselves.
Four short steps. You see the figure before you send anything.