And so, at the start of 2025, the SolarAfrica team sat down and put together one of our most exciting lists to date, featuring more customer savings, more community outreach, and more business growth. Basically, if it moved, we added more of it to the list.
Here’s everything we managed to get struck off our To-Do list:
Our portfolio of solar energy solutions now powers hundreds of businesses across South Africa – and this year, even more companies joined in on the renewable action. From manufacturers to logistics operators to food producers, more C&I customers decided to take charge of their energy stacks, and we’re helping them build mixes that are cleaner, cheaper and far more reliable – the kind of smart power solutions SA businesses now expect.
If you want the full line-up, visit our Projects page.
2025 kept our team on their toes…at one point, we were switching on sites faster than Eskom can issue tariff updates. Those worth shouting about include some of the most substantial solar for business installations completed this year, including Ladismith Cheese (1.6 MW), Sequence Logistics (1.3 MW), Nestlé Estcourt (1.4 MW), Propet (1.2 MW), and a major 2.3 MW system for P&G, among many others.
This is on top of builds like Yanfeng Rosslyn, Extrupet, Boxwood Property Fund and two Tekwani Sawmills sites combining solar and battery storage.
We showed up both online and in real life. Propak 2025 gave us the perfect platform to showcase Electricity 2.0 – our virtual ecosystem combining electricity wheeling, trading and sustainable solar power solutions – to one of Africa’s largest manufacturing and processing audiences. We also released a customer story with Rosema Bricks; the first of many to come as we continue celebrating the businesses who partner with us.
One of our favourite numbers of the year: R203 million in cumulative lifetime savings delivered to our customers. Savings they can redirect back into business expansion, job creation or sustainability upgrades.
2025 saw more people engaging with our work, our insights and our team. We earned numerous glowing 5-star Google Reviews, grew our LinkedIn community from 44,000 to approximately 53,000 followers, and featured widely across industry news platforms – unpacking everything from electricity wheeling to tariff changes, market updates and trends impacting SA’s energy landscape.
We also won more awards, such as the SAPVIA C&I Solar PV Excellence Award for the Trade Route Mall project.
Our flagship 1 GW SunCentral project – one of the largest solar projects in South Africa – hit all major milestones: Transformer arrived. Panels went up. Three distribution substations were installed. The Main Transmission Substation is powering ahead. From De Aar to Hanover, the Northern Cape skyline has officially entered its renewable glow-up era.
This year’s community work spanned education, healthcare and youth development.
At SunCentral, we delivered 30 wheelchairs to local clinics, built a reading facility for Emthanjeni Primary, and installed safe outdoor play equipment for Hanover Primary.
Across SolarAfrica, our team also got involved:
We rebuilt our website to make it simpler, speedier and more intuitive. The new design includes:
Starting with just over 20 team members in 2011, today the SolarAfrica team is around 140-strong. We’ve expanded our engineering, construction, customer operations, technology and development capacity, adding more power to our business in every sense of the word.
And that’s a wrap on 2025 – here’s to EVEN MORE on our 2026 To-Do List!
Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful festive season and a prosperous new year!
