At Intersolar Africa 2026, Swatten presented grid-grade energy storage solutions purpose-built for markets with weak grid infrastructure and high solar potential, addressing one of Kenya’s most pressing energy challenges: how to ensure stable, reliable power in environments where outages and voltage fluctuations remain common.
Kenya’s energy landscape is shaped by a structural contradiction. While the country benefits from abundant solar resources and rapidly expanding distributed PV installations, power reliability continues to be a major concern—particularly for commercial users, healthcare facilities, schools, cold-chain logistics, and high-end residential communities. Frequent outages, voltage dips, and unstable grid conditions translate directly into operational losses, equipment damage, and disrupted daily life.
Against this backdrop, Swatten positioned energy storage not as a home appliance, but as reliability infrastructure—applying grid-engineering logic to bridge renewable generation and real-world demand, and to deliver stable, controllable power in markets where grid reliability remains a structural challenge. This positioning is underpinned by the grid-engineering heritage of Sieyuan Electric, Swatten’s parent company and a long-standing leader in power transmission and system engineering. Over the years, Sieyuan has delivered major EPC grid projects across Africa, including the 220 kV Olkaria–Lessos–Kisumu transmission line project in Kenya and a 161 kV transmission line EPC project in Ghana. These projects operate under harsh conditions—high temperatures, dust, long transmission distances, and complex load profiles—where reliability and power quality are mission-critical.
This deep-rooted Safety Grid DNA forms the technical foundation of Swatten’s energy storage solutions, enabling grid-class stability to be extended from national infrastructure down to commercial facilities and residential users.
At the center of Swatten’s exhibition was its three-phase hybrid inverter portfolio ranging from 10 to 50 kW, designed specifically for small and medium commercial and industrial (C&I) applications in weak-grid environments. The system supports three-phase 100% unbalanced loads, rapid response to grid disturbances, and seamless transition during outages—ensuring voltage stability and continuous operation for critical loads.
To meet growing demand for larger, scalable systems, Swatten’s three-phase hybrid inverters support up to 30 units operating in parallel, enabling system capacities of up to 1.5 MW output power and 3 MWh battery storage. This architecture allows businesses, communities, and industrial zones to build flexible microgrids that grow with demand while maintaining centralized control and grid interaction.
From a technical perspective, the solution features 16 A PV input capability, a 6-MPPT architecture, and a wide MPPT voltage range of 150 V–950 V, ensuring high efficiency and stable performance across varying PV configurations and weather conditions. These specifications are particularly well-suited to Kenya’s high-irradiance environment, maximizing solar utilization while maintaining system resilience.
Complementing the C&I solutions, Swatten also showcased its all-in-one energy storage system with an integrated AC charger, targeting high-end residential communities and premium housing developments. The system supports flexible charging from both PV and grid sources, delivers uninterrupted backup during outages, and optimizes self-consumption during normal operation. Its compact, low-maintenance design balances performance, aesthetics, and operational simplicity—key requirements for upscale residential users.
What differentiates Swatten in the Kenyan market is not only system scalability, but also its grid-grade engineering characteristics: millisecond-level response times, robust EMC design, wide voltage adaptability, and reliable operation in high-temperature(-25°C to 60°C), high-humidity, and dusty environments with IP66. These are capabilities proven in real power-system deployments, rather than laboratory-only specifications.
Swatten’s message at Intersolar Africa was clear: in markets like Kenya, energy storage is not just about maximizing solar generation—it is about delivering power reliability. By translating outage losses into concrete application scenarios and then into scalable, commercially viable solutions, Swatten remains committed to supporting the market with grid-level, application-driven energy storage solutions, helping businesses and communities move from energy uncertainty to power confidence.
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