Powering off- and weak-grid facilities
Solar Energy Solutions for Businesses and Institutions
The Challenge: Securing the power to grow
Establishing a dependable energy supply is a costly and time-consuming undertaking for governments, businesses, and NGOs in areas without reliable grids. Inconsistent electricity stalls business growth, limits access to essential services, and slows recovery from economic and environmental shocks.
- Nearly 1 billion people rely on healthcare facilities without dependable power.
- 78% of African firms experience frequent outages, with 41% naming electricity as their biggest business constraint – the highest rate in the world.
- In education, just one in three schools across Africa has access to electricity.
Where grids are absent or fail, organisations turn to diesel and petrol generators, which are costly, polluting, and unreliable.
Our Approach
Scaling up to support greater ambitions
Sun King has expanded its existing solar product service and range to serve larger institutional clients — governments, NGOs, schools, and health facilities — that need dependable power across multiple sites in off-grid and weak-grid locations.
Today, we provide clean, reliable solar systems that reduce dependence on fossil fuel generators. We design, install, and maintain each system, tailoring it to the needs of the facility — from a small school or clinic to a larger office or hospital. With scalable multi-kilowatt capacity from 2 kW to 30 kW, our systems deliver uninterrupted power for lighting, refrigeration, air conditioning, educational tools, medical equipment, and office operations.
Why It Matters
Dependable Off-Grid Power
Electricity outages impede health, education, and humanitarian missions. Sun King’s robust solutions offer true reliability, enabled by remote monitoring and on-ground service teams across Africa.
End-to-End Solutions
From on-site evaluation, system design, and custom engineering, to deployment, maintenance, and monitoring, Sun King’s technical and on-ground teams support facilities to maintain a consistent and lasting energy supply.
Lower Energy Costs
Sun King solar solutions generate cheaper power than fossil fuel generators and are more affordable than the grid. They typically last longer, are safer and healthier for users, and have a lower environmental impact.
Case Study
Transforming Malawi’s Education:
BEFIT’s Solar EdTech in Every Primary School by 2030
Connecting Generations to Opportunity
Malawi faces a major education challenge: 9 out of 10 children can’t read a simple text by age 10. Schools are overcrowded, under-resourced, and mostly unelectrified. That’s why, the government has launched BEFIT (Building Education Foundations through Innovation and Technology) with NGO Imagine Worldwide and software developer one billion.
The programme stocks classrooms with solar-powered tablets loaded with literacy and numeracy lessons, but BEFIT only works if schools have reliable electricity. Sun King has already installed multi-kilowatt solar systems in over 1,140 schools, serving 500,000+ learners across the country. By 2030, every primary school in Malawi will run on Sun King solar, reaching 3.8 million children annually.
Solar-Fuelled Learning Across Africa
Independent research shows BEFIT students achieve measurable gains in reading and maths, with improved attendance and equal progress for girls and boys. Following Malawi’s lead Sun King and Imagine Worldwide are now partnering with governments in Tanzania and Sierra Leone to install solar and deliver ed tech interventions.
Across Africa, Sun King has already powered 1,258 schools and will reach 2,350 by February 2026 – bringing solar-powered learning to nearly 1 million children.
Case Study
Keeping Critical Services Running Around the World
Powering Institutions at the Heart of Communities
Sun King’s impact goes beyond education. Across Africa, our systems are electrifying clinics, farms, businesses, and government facilities, keeping critical services running where the grid fails.
Many healthcare facilities face constant blackouts and high energy costs, forcing difficult choices between patient care and electricity bills. Now, Sun King delivers reliable 24-hour power to hospitals and clinics in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and beyond.
Keeping Kenya's Healthcare Centres Open
Take the Sienna Family Care Centre in Nairobi. Before installing Sun King’s PowerHub 3300, the clinic battled daily outages and rising costs, spending around KES 1,000 ($8 USD) every few days on unreliable power. Since going solar in 2024, Sienna runs on Sun King’s solar power, cutting expenses and guaranteeing uninterrupted emergency and laboratory services.
“By midday our battery is always full. We can run critical equipment and emergency services at any hour,” said Boniface Rucathi Njenga, Co-founder, Sienna Family Care Centre. With dependable solar, the healthcare centre has lowered costs and, improved patient care, demonstrating that distributed energy transforms healthcare as well as schools.
Bringing Reliable Energy to Critical Services Worldwide
From powering schools in Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania to electrifying hospitals and health centres in Kenya, Nigeria, and India, Sun King’s reach spans more than 40 countries. Our solutions serve institutions across both the public and private sectors — from clinics and classrooms to supermarkets and shops across East, West, and Southern Africa, as well as South Asia.
