Rural Agro-Processing Solar System — Malawi

Project Overview

Solar-plus-storage supply for a rural agro-processing workshop serving local growers. The project focused on the practical load sequence of a small facility: daytime processing, lighting, weighing, and a limited number of essential loads after sunset.

Project Challenges

• The facility needed power for productive daytime work without sizing the battery around every processing machine.
• Equipment had to be shipped as a coherent package to simplify local installation and fault finding.

Supply Scope

• Separated daytime processing circuits from the essential evening circuit and sized storage for the latter.
• Prepared a single supply list covering modules, inverter equipment, battery units, protection, and workshop distribution components.

Case Takeaways

• The project structure keeps the most energy-intensive work in the solar-production window and protects essential loads after hours.
• Component labeling and export documentation were organized for a local electrician or EPC partner to commission the system.

• N-type PV modules
• Three-phase hybrid inverter
• LiFePO4 battery modules
• Workshop distribution board and protection hardware