Powering essential services
Energy for Public Institutions
The Challenge
When power fails, essential services fail
Establishing a dependable energy supply to power social services is a costly and time-consuming undertaking for governments and NGOs in areas without reliable grids. Inconsistent electricity limits access to essential services and slows recovery from economic and environmental shocks.
- Nearly 1 billion people rely on healthcare facilities without dependable power.
- Just one in three hospitals and one in five schools across Sub-Saharan 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 supplant 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 — delivering uninterrupted power for lighting, refrigeration, air conditioning, learning , healthcare, and daily 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 real-time remote monitoring and on-ground service teams across Africa.
End-to-End Solutions
From on-site evaluation, system design, and custom engineering, to deployment, on-going maintenance, and remote 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 more affordable power than fossil fuel generators and are often more cost-effective than the grid. They typically last longer, are safer and healthier for users, and have a lower environmental impact.
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 equips 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 large solar inverter systems in over 1,100 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.
Scaling the Approach
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 EdTech interventions.
Across Africa, Sun King has already powers 2,350 schools, bringing solar-powered learning to nearly 1 million children.
Keeping Critical Services Running
Powering institutions at the heart of communities
Sun King’s impact goes beyond education. Across Africa, our systems are electrifying government facilities, from clinics and hospitals to government offices and administrative centres, 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. 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 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.
