OUR HISTORY
From one kitchen table in Dzorwulu
Twelve years, six hundred and forty surveys and one expensive mistake, in the order they happened.
TWELVE YEARS
Including the year we got it wrong
A timeline that only lists growth is a press release. The entry for 2018 cost us more than any other year on this page.
2014
One drawing, redone at half the size
Kwabena Ofosu-Mensah redraws a neighbour's quotation on the kitchen table in Dzorwulu. Two panels and a small battery, fitted at weekends. The house is still on our service book.
2016
The yard, and the first three staff
A compound behind the Dzorwulu Special School, chosen because it had a gate wide enough for a truck. Twenty-eight installations that year, all domestic, all within four kilometres.
2018
The lead-acid year we got wrong
We fitted lead-acid banks on nineteen systems because they halved the price. Most were dead within four years and we replaced eleven of them at our own cost. It is the most expensive thing we have learned and the reason we now quote lithium as standard.
2019
The first commercial roof
Forty-eight panels over the traders' cold store at Kaneshie market — our first job with no subcontractors on it at all, and the point at which we stopped using them entirely.
2021
Servicing becomes a department
Efua Ansah joins to run what had until then been whoever was free. Twice-yearly visits, monitoring somebody actually watches, and a fault line with a twenty-four-hour promise on it.
2023
The apprenticeship starts
Two places a year out of the technical institutes, certification paid for, eighteen months on the roof with a lead. Nine of the first eleven are still here.
2026
Nineteen people, 3.4 MWp generating
Six hundred and forty roofs surveyed, something over three hundred systems installed, and every one of them still ours to service if the owner wants it.
Kwabena Ofosu-Mensah, founder
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
The industry's problem is not the technology
I spent fourteen years at ECG and I have never once met a household that did not want their lights to stay on. What stops people is not doubt about whether solar works. It is that they have been quoted three wildly different numbers by three firms, none of which would tell them what the system would actually produce.
We have tried to be boring about that. Survey first, arithmetic on the page, one price, our own crew, and somebody on the roof twice a year afterwards. It is not a clever business model. It is just the one that means I can still knock on the door of the house we did in 2014.
Kwabena Ofosu-Mensah
640
Roofs surveyed across Greater Accra
3.4
MWp
Installed and generating today
12
yrs
On the same roofs, still servicing them
24
hrs
From a fault call to a technician on site
THE SURVEY IS FREE
Find out what your roof is worth
Ninety minutes on site, a shading study, a modelled monthly yield and a written price. Nothing to pay, and the report is yours whether you use us or not.