Hydroponic Organic Vegetable Solar + Storage System — Mauritius

Project Overview

This project supports a hydroponic organic vegetable facility in southern Mauritius, where greenhouse lighting, automated irrigation, and water-circulation equipment create an electricity demand that extends beyond the main solar-production window. The supply scope combines PV generation, grid coordination, and battery storage so the site can use daytime solar directly and retain stored energy for the operating periods defined in the final load plan.

Project Challenges

• Hydroponic growing relies on greenhouse lighting, automated irrigation, and water circulation that must be coordinated with an operating schedule extending beyond daylight hours.
• The project needed to reduce reliance on daytime grid electricity while keeping the supply scope practical for a commercial controlled-environment agriculture site.

Supply Scope

• Configured a 150 kW PV field using 710 W solar modules and three 50 kW Growatt inverters for the agreed grid-connected system architecture.
• Added 60 kWh of battery storage to absorb defined daytime surplus and support the selected greenhouse loads during evening or lower-solar operating periods.
• Prepared the equipment schedule around the greenhouse load priorities, with final protection, dispatch settings, and local grid requirements reviewed against the site design.

Case Takeaways

• The project establishes a solar-first operating approach for the hydroponic facility while retaining the grid as part of the agreed hybrid supply architecture.
• PV generation, inverter capacity, and storage are presented as one coordinated equipment scope for the site's lighting, irrigation, and water-circulation planning.

• 710 W high-efficiency solar modules
• 3 × 50 kW Growatt solar inverters
• 60 kWh battery energy storage system
• Project-matched mounting, cable, protection, and monitoring equipment