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Solar Energy

Egypt receives roughly 2,000 to 2,600 kWh of solar irradiation per square metre a year — around double what northern Europe gets, which is why payback here is counted in years rather than decades. We size and install rooftop systems on villas and chalets, and we build the plants out in the desert too: pile-driving the tracker rows, trenching the duct banks, pulling the DC trunk and standing up the inverter stations.

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Scope of works

What we actually do.

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  1. 01

    Rooftop PV for villas & chalets

    Monocrystalline modules on anodised aluminium rail, string or hybrid inverters sized to your roof and your consumption rather than to a brochure, DC and AC isolation, surge protection and monitoring you can read on a phone. Most New Cairo and Sheikh Zayed villas land between 8 and 20 kWp.

  2. 02

    Utility-scale solar plants

    Pile-driven steel foundations for fixed-tilt and single-axis tracker rows, module mounting, trenching and duct banks, large-diameter DC cable pulls, combiner and string-inverter stations on cast concrete plinths, earthing grids and the MV interconnection.

  3. 03

    Net metering & grid connection

    Application through your distribution company, bi-directional meter, protection settings, single-line drawings and commissioning paperwork. We file where the property actually sits — anything past kilometre 66 on the Alexandria–Matrouh road is Beheira, not Alexandria, which catches out contractors who have never done a Sahel connection.

  4. 04

    Solar water heating

    Flat-plate and evacuated-tube collectors with 150–300 litre insulated cylinders, electric backup element and a thermostatic mixing valve. The cheapest solar you can buy in Egypt, because water heating is the largest single electrical load in most villas.

  5. 05

    Battery storage & off-grid

    LiFePO4 banks with hybrid inverters, automatic changeover and load prioritisation — sized either for the whole house or for essential circuits only. The right answer for a chalet at the end of a weak feeder or a farm with no reliable supply at all.

Specification

The numbers, before you ask.

Solar Energy — technical specification
ModulesMonocrystalline PERC or TOPCon, 550–620 Wp, 25-year performance warranty
InvertersString or hybrid, 5–100 kW, with DC surge protection and monitoring
Villa system size8–20 kWp typical; 25–60 kWp with pool plant and full HVAC
MountingAnodised aluminium rail, ballasted or chemically anchored; stainless fixings on the coast
Soiling loss5–12% a year uncleaned in the Western Desert; 2–4% cleaned monthly
HandoverSingle-line diagram, string test results, monitoring login and an O&M schedule
Outdoor string-inverter and combiner station on a concrete plinth

Selection

How we scope solar

  • Villa rooftop, grid-tiedNew Cairo · Sheikh Zayed

    A system sized against twelve months of your real bills, wired to shave the expensive top consumption bracket first. Exported surplus credited under net metering.

  • Chalet hybrid with storageSahel

    PV plus a battery so the fridge, the pumps and the alarm stay alive through a cut, with remote monitoring for the nine months nobody is there.

  • Solar water heatingRetrofit

    The fastest payback in the catalogue. Collectors and a cylinder added to an existing house in two days, with the electric heater kept as backup for winter mornings.

  • Farm & off-grid pumpingDelta & desert

    Direct-drive solar pumping with a variable-frequency drive, or a full off-grid set with battery and generator changeover where there is no usable feeder.

  • Utility-scale plant constructionContracting

    Piling, trenching, duct banks, DC and AC cabling, inverter stations and earthing as a subcontract package, with our own rigs and cable-pulling crews.

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Solar Energy in place.

Every photograph on this page was taken on one of our sites during the work. Nothing here is a stock image or a render.

Duct bank laid in an open trench before backfill
Duct bank laid in an open trench before backfill
Large-diameter DC cable coil staged at the trench head
Large-diameter DC cable coil staged at the trench head

Where it goes

  • Villa & chalet rooftops
  • Carport & pergola PV
  • Solar water heating
  • Battery backup & off-grid
  • Pool pump & irrigation circuits
  • Utility-scale plant construction
  • Trenching & duct banks
  • Inverter & combiner stations

Projects featuring solar energy

Where we have used it.

Solar Power Plant — Western Desert
Western Desert — 2026

Solar Power Plant

Piling, trenching & inverter stations · Utility scale · In progress

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Questions we get asked

Solar Energy — questions we get asked

How long does solar take to pay for itself in Egypt?
It depends almost entirely on which consumption bracket you are in and how much of your load runs during daylight. A villa that is deep into the upper residential brackets, with air conditioning and a pool pump running through the afternoon, typically sees payback in four to seven years against a twenty-five year panel warranty. A lightly used apartment takes far longer. We model it against twelve months of your actual bills and show you the arithmetic rather than an average.
Does net metering actually work for a private home?
Yes. Your meter is replaced with a bi-directional one, daytime surplus is exported and netted against what you draw at night. Two things people get wrong. First, the size limit is not a fixed number of kilowatts — the rule is that your system may not exceed your own maximum load in the previous fiscal year, so twelve months of real bills decide the design. Second, any net surplus left at the end of June is bought from you, but at the regulated wholesale price, which is a long way below the retail tariff. That is why we size to your consumption rather than to export. The application goes through your distribution company and we see it through.
How much does dust cost me?
More than most people expect. On an uncleaned array in the Western Desert or on the Sahel road we see 5 to 12 percent of annual yield lost to soiling, and it is worse after a khamaseen. Monthly rinsing with soft water brings that down to 2 to 4 percent. We set the tilt and the row access so cleaning is a hose job rather than a scaffold job.
Do panels survive on the coast?
The modules do — the mounting is what fails. Salt-laden air eats mild steel and untreated aluminium fixings within a few seasons at Marassi or Almaza Bay. We use anodised or marine-grade aluminium rail with A4 stainless fasteners, isolate dissimilar metals, and keep terminations inside sealed IP65 enclosures. That is the difference between a fifteen-year array and a five-year one.
Do I need batteries?
Only if you need power during a cut, or if you have no grid at all. Grid-tied solar without storage is cheaper per kWh and pays back faster, because netting against your own bill is worth far more than selling a surplus. Batteries earn their place on a chalet, a farm or a house on a feeder that drops regularly — and there, we usually size them for essential circuits rather than the whole house.

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