Solar Energy Group is a South African company that provides renewable energy solutions including solar power, solar water pumps, and solar geysers and heat collectors. It believes that renewable energy is the sustainable way to power economic growth in Africa. The company imports, distributes, and integrates solar components into turnkey solutions for residential, commercial and utility-scale projects. It has experience with over 300 projects ranging from small home systems to multi-megawatt solar farms.

1. COMPANY PROFILE
Tel: +27 (0)12 807 1023 | +27(0)87 943 4310
Cell: +27(0)74 561 7976 | +27(0)74 367 8545
E-mail: info@solarenergygroup.co.za | Website: www.solarenergygroup.co.za
Address (Retail Outlet): Shop 9, Six Fountains Lifestyle Centre,
C/O Solomon Mahlangu Drive & Bendeman Boulevard, Silver Lakes, Pretoria east, 0081
SOLAR
ENERGY | PUMPS | GEYSERS

2. 1.!Why
Solar Energy Group beliefs that economic
growth must happen for Africa and its
people to reach their potential of becoming
a prosperous and productive continent, to
do that we will needs energy, and lots of it.
This energy production does not have to be
done to the detriment of nature &
communities due to air, water and soil
pollution caused by greenhouse gas emitting
and water wasting/polluting energy sources.
The only sustainable way to do this is to
generate renewable energy to drive
economies and combine these with energy
efficiency measures to minimize energy use.
Distributed energy generation also has the
benefit of being less capital intensive
allowing customers to produce their power
This focus on clean, locally produced energy
will help to drive the trend towards caring
for our environment, our people, our
communities and our futures. And this is the
attitude we will need to grow a prosperous
African continent worth living & working in.
Our Mission is to accelerate the conversion
to renewable energy as the main source of
energy on the continent and planet.
2.!How
To achieve this, we work with and employ
people, partners and companies that share
this vision. That is working hard in their
chosen fields to make a difference, to be
world class in what they do and is striving to
be the best, just as we strive to do the
same.
Our people take pride in providing well
thought out, affordable, customer informed,
engineered solutions to the basic needs of
power, water and hot water. Know-how,
integrity & Quality workmanship is very
important to us and at the core of how we
do business. It also helps to know your doing
something that is good for the environment
and humanity!

3. 3.!What
We import, distribute, integrate and provide
Engineered Solar Solutions, Components and
products that are packaged into turnkey
solutions to meet customers’ needs in terms
of power, water and hot water.
The selected offerings, products and service
have been chosen primarily because these
will help us to achieve our vision for the
continent.
SEG has 7 teams that specialize in different
disciplines and have the experience and
capacity to plan, co-ordinate and manage
solar projects of any scale.
The company worked on over 300 projects
ranging in size and scope from 3kWp basic
home systems to multi megawatt solar
farms.
SOLAR POWER:
Solar is the most abundant, best developed
and reliable renewable energy available at
the moment. The technology has been
tested and proven. The feasibilities have
been shown.
SEG has built up the proficiency, supplier
relationships and on the ground capacity to
deliver solutions.
Residential Solar
SEG provides residential solar from starter
system that just run the basics to full off-
grid systems that can run a whole house.
The systems types we do include: Grid-tied
(self-consumption and net-metering), off-
grid and grid-interactive hybrid systems.
These are mostly meant for home owners
either in cities (grid-interactive) or on
farms/small holdings (off-grid/grid-
interactive).
Residential conversion to solar is a relatively
easy one if energy efficient appliances,
geysers and stoves are used in combination
with the solar solution. A mind shift is
required as the customer ends up owning
and managing their own power plant at
home.
A comprehensive energy audit and site
assessment is done beforehand to ensure
that a client will have a right sized,
sustainable solution with a long system life
expectancy.
Systems pay themselves off in energy
production and energy savings. The average
pay-off period is 6 to 10 years compared to a
25 year life of system. These systems starts
paying for themselves from day 1.
SEG does turnkey installations that includes:
sizing, design, feasibilities, engineering,
component supply, electrical reticulation,
installations, commissioning, securing,
monitoring, maintenance & management.

4. Commercial Solar
Commercial solar systems are solar systems
used in Corporate & Industrial (C&I) markets
on office blocks, shopping centers,
factories, mines, commercial farms, hotels,
lodges, Security Estates, etc.
The most widely used systems are grid-tied,
self-consumption systems due to the energy
production curve of the solar plant being
comparable to the day usage curve in the
average building.
Hybrid systems using a combination of solar,
batteries, gen-sets and/or wind turbines are
also available. Hybrid systems allow for off-
grid micro-grids to be built in remote
locations like mining compounds, military
bases and isolated communities where grid
access is difficult or expensive.
Community solar systems are large scale
systems that service whole communities like
golf estates, security estates, retirement
villages, etc. These can either be installed
as one system or dispersed on roof, carports
or ground mount installations. The dispersed
system works like one big power plant.
Commercial solar systems can be installed
on rooftops (single or dispersed), carport,
parking garages or ground-mount locations.
A full energy audit and feasibility analysis is
conducted by our engineers before the
system is installed to optimized the design
and minimize installation costs. The grid/
gen-set provides any additional power
requirements.
SEG does turnkey installations that includes:
design, sizing, engineering, financing
arrangements, component supply, electrical
reticulation, installations, commissioning,
management & Maintenance.
We are a full wrap EPC (Engineering,
Procurement & Construction) company. As
well as an IPP (Independent Power
Producer).

6. Utility Scale Solar Farms
Large scale (Megawatt size) solar farms that
interconnect with local, micro, municipal
&/or the national grids. Such farms can
supply power either to one large scale user
like factories, industries or mines or
multiple small scale users like municipal
customers, communities, security estates,
office blocks/parks or office parks.
This power can either be used for:
•! Self-consumption: Used on the site where
it is produced.
•! Wheeling onto the local grid: Power is
injected onto the local municipal grid for
example where it is distributed to users
on that particular grid. Excess power can
be wheeled onto the national grid.
•! Wheeling onto the national grid: This
power is either sold to Eskom or other
power consumers using the national grid
to distribute the power.
•! Banked: Power is generated and wheeled
on the grid where it is used by other
users. The banked units/credits can then
be used at a stage when the solar farm is
not producing power.
•! Stored: Grid-scale storage solutions like
lithium batteries can be implemented to
allow for smoothing out of the delivery
curve, transition to backup gen-sets,
power storage or peak shaving to reduce
maximum demand charges.
We act as project developers, EPC Company
(Engineering, Procurement & Construction),
IPP (Independent Power Producer), Project
Financing originators & General Consultants.
SEG in partnership with Solar Man, Bubo
Utilities and SunPower is working on 6
projects throughout South Africa ranging
from 1 to 50 MW in size. The farms will
connect to local municipal grids and be a
second energy supply source. Solar power
will be a primary supply with Eskom
supplying whatever additional power is
required. Implementation will be from the
beginning of 2017.

7. SOLAR WATER
PUMPS:
Solar water pumps are provided primarily to
farming and residential clients. The main
benefit is that these can be run off-grid,
without batteries, grid power or generator
and can thus be located nearly anywhere.
The pumps run directly from solar panels but
AC boxes are available to allow for running
it on grid-power or using a gen-set.
If water and power can be supplied with
solar, true off-grid living becomes a feasible
reality and makes the lives of far flung
communities easier and less hardy.
Some of our customers include
municipalities and eco estates that are
putting in solar pumps to provide water to
communities where piping in water through
new infrastructure would be prohibitively
expensive.
This technology also allows farmers to farm
on arid and/or fringe lands more
economically. There is a lot of access to
land, but without water these lands cannot
be used to make a living by both small and
large scale farmers. Livestock & game
farmers can also now afford to keep game
on camp by providing water close to grazing.

8. SOLAR GEYSERS &
HEAT COLLECTORS:
Heat collector panels can be retrofitted on
existing geysers to minimize replacement
cost but still generate hot water for both
residential and commercial customers.
Solar tube geysers come in high and low
pressure and can either be complete units
(with tank, stand & tubes) or retrofit units
(with manifold, stand & tubes). High
pressure can take up to 6 bar pressure and
low pressure up to 1 bar pressure.
Warm water is always available by utilizing a
grid, gas or generator backup and a timer or
heat sensing unit like a geyser wise or Bosch
gas kit.
A typical geyser with a 3kW element can use
over 4300 units of electricity (more that
R7000) per year. This makes the payback on
a system like this as short as 2 to 3 years.
In commercial installations a large volume
storage tank is utilized with pumps
continually circulating the warm water
through the system to ensure that water
wastage is minimized by having warm water
available the moment the tap is opened.
Heat losses are minimized by insulating the
tanks and piping as far as possible.
These heat collector panels can also be used
to heat pools, spa pools and Jacuzzis.

9. 4.!Brands & Partners
Solar Panels
Mounting Structures
MPPT’s
Batteries

10. Inverters Components & Consumables
Solar Water Pumps
Solar & Gas Geysers

11. 5.!Our People
Tihan Kuypers: Sales & Technical
Kriz Kuypers: Technical & Installations
Manager
Lawrance Makeke: Sales & Marketing
(Commercial & Developments)
Boyce Hlatshaneni: Marketing & PR
Darius Mare: Electrical engineering
Tshegofatso Modisakeng: Solar
Engineering & Sales
Kobus Kuypers: Project Management &
Technical (Specialization in water)
Andreas Wagner: Solar Engineer

12. Josef du Toit: Electrician,
Wireman & Solar Engineer
Aluschka van Heerden: Sourcing,
Imports & Technical
Nica Smit: Sales & Admin
Thompson Zhou: Site &
Installations Supervisor
6.!Company Info
Tel
+27 (0)12 807 1023 | +27 (0)87 943 4310
Cell
+27 (0)74 561 7976 | +27 (0)74 367 8545
E-mail
info@solarenergygroup.co.za (General)
orders@solarenergygroup.co.za (Sales)
tk@solarenergygroup.co.za (Commercial)
Retail outlet (Pretoria)
Shop 9, Six Fountains Lifestyle Centre,
Silver Lakes, Pretoria east
Sales Office (Pretoria)
457 Cliff Avenue, Waterkloof, Pretoria
Sales Office (Cape Town)
2 Strand Road, Bellville, Cape Town
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13. SOLAR
ENERGY | PUMPS | GEYSERS
Tel: +27 (0)12 807 1023 | +27(0)87 943 4310
Cell: +27(0)74 561 7976 | +27(0)74 367 8545
E-mail: info@solarenergygroup.co.za | Website: www.solarenergygroup.co.za
Address (Retail Outlet): Shop 9, Six Fountains Lifestyle Centre,
C/O Solomon Mahlangu Drv & Bendeman Boulevard, Silver Lakes, Pretoria east, 0081