A fixed power bill,
while Eskom keeps
climbing.
We fund, install and maintain your solar system. You pay one fixed monthly rental, designed to land below your rising grid bill, and at the end of the term the system is yours.
Electricity is the
fastest-rising cost
on your balance sheet.
South African grid tariffs have more than tripled since 2010, and keep climbing at roughly 8 to 12% a year. It is a cost you cannot control, and every year of waiting widens the gap.
Your rental holds flat.
The grid keeps climbing.
Solar on a GridAsset rental locks your energy cost as a single fixed figure. While the grid compounds every year, your rental does not move. The widening gap between the two is your saving, every month, for the life of the term.
Compounds, 8 to 12% a year.
Every increase stacks on the last. What you pay today is the cheapest it will ever be.
Fixed, 0% escalation.
One agreed figure, locked for the full term. No tariff, no per-unit meter games, no surprises.
Is your saving.
It widens every year, and at the end of the term the system is yours, generating for free.
We finance it. We run it.
You save.
of the system.
Panels, inverters, batteries and installation, fully funded by GridAsset. The client puts in nothing. No deposit, no bank loan, no credit checks.
of the deal.
Monitoring and maintenance stay on our book. If a component fails, replacing it is our cost, not the client's.
monthly rental.
One fixed monthly rental with zero escalation for the full term, while grid tariffs keep climbing. The system becomes yours at the end.
From first call to
switched on.
Site assessment
Free and without obligation. We model your building, your usage profile and your current tariff.
Fixed proposal
System spec, fixed monthly rental and projected saving. Real numbers, on paper.
One agreement
A single rental contract. No finance application, no bond over the property.
Installation
Fully funded and project-managed by GridAsset, end to end.
Switch on
Your rental stays fixed while tariffs climb. The gap is your saving, every month.
We own and run it.
A fixed monthly rental. GridAsset owns, operates and maintains the system, and carries the performance risk.
Still fixed. Still ours to run.
The rental continues at the same fixed figure, 0% escalation. Nothing changes for you, and your saving keeps widening against the grid.
It becomes yours.
Ownership of the system transfers to you. It keeps generating, rental-free, for the rest of its working life.
Own the asset. Don't
just rent the power.
With a PPA, a provider installs the system and sells you the electricity it produces at a per-kWh tariff that escalates every year. The provider keeps the asset. You are still buying power, on a long contract, and at the end you own nothing.
With our rental you pay a fixed rand figure, not a moving tariff, with 0% escalation. We carry the capital, maintenance and performance risk, and at the end of the term the system becomes yours.
You end up owning it.
Payments build towards an asset on your balance sheet, not a provider's.
Cost certainty.
A flat rand figure is easy to budget. A PPA tariff still rises with the grid and with your usage.
No take-or-pay exposure.
No minimum-consumption clauses penalising you for using less.
One simple agreement.
Not a metered electricity contract for the next ten to twenty years.
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A simplified comparison of common routes to commercial solar in South Africa. Specific terms vary by provider. Your exact rental, term and conditions are confirmed in writing in your proposal.
Tier-1 hardware.
One accountable party.
We carry the system for years, so we only install equipment we trust. Design, hardware, installation, compliance and monitoring all run through one accountable team, never a chain of subcontractors pointing at each other.
Panels
We specify only Tier-1 monocrystalline panels, backed by long-dated product and linear-performance warranties, so the array keeps producing well past the rental term.
Inverters + Storage
Hybrid inverters paired with lithium-iron-phosphate battery storage and fast backup switchover, for clean, stable power and seamless protection against outages.
Engineering · EPC
Vetted engineering, procurement and construction partners design each system to the site, manage installation and commissioning, and sign off every job to South African standard.
The grid keeps climbing.
Your rental doesn't.
The risk sits on our side
of the table.
The capital
Every rand of hardware and installation.
The performance
If the system underdelivers, that is our problem.
Maintenance & monitoring
For the full term, at our cost.
Your building
No bond, no security over the property.
Your savings
The gap between rental and grid spend is yours.
Your operations
Nothing changes in the day-to-day.
The system, eventually
It transfers to you at the end of the term.
Built for operations
that run on power.
If electricity sits in your top five costs, the model works.
The market has
already moved.
Growth in South African rooftop solar in three and a half years.
The early-adopter phase is over.
Hours of sunshine a year, around 5.5 peak sun hours daily.
One of the best solar resources on earth.
Property value uplift on solar-fitted buildings.
The asset pays twice.
Sources: NERSA tariff determinations; Eskom embedded-generation data (approximately 983 MW March 2022 to 7,345 MW August 2025); CSIR. The 2030 figure is a modeled extrapolation at the current run-rate, not an industry forecast.
The saving is just
the beginning.
Beyond a lower monthly cost, solar on a GridAsset rental works hard on your balance sheet, your tax position and the value of your property.
Tax efficient.
Your rental is an operating expense, and solar assets qualify for accelerated tax depreciation under Section 12B. Worth a conversation with your accountant.
Off your books.
No capital outlay and no debt raised. The system sits off your balance sheet for the term, then transfers to you as an owned asset.
Worth more.
Solar-fitted commercial buildings carry a 3 to 5% value uplift. The same asset that cuts your bill lifts what your property is worth.
A real hedge.
A fixed cost, locked against a grid that compounds 8 to 12% a year. The kind of certainty you can actually budget around.
Every system we run,
on one screen.
We already monitor and maintain every system on our book. GridAsset OS is the software we built to do it, and we are opening it to the people whose roofs it watches. Live generation, real savings in rands, alerts before you notice a problem, and every document and service record in one place.
- MonitoringEvery site checked every ten minutes
- PerformanceWhat each site made against what it should have
- Active alertsFaults raised the moment they happen
- TicketsJobs with an owner and a due time
One platform · one login
- Service agreementsResponse times per client, tracked
- MaintenanceInspections and washing on schedule
- Monthly reportsIn your branding, emailed to clients
- Client portalEvery client sees their own sites
The same numbers,
in your pocket.
Built mobile-first, so checking what your roof did today takes one tap on the way to a meeting. Install it to the home screen and it behaves like an app.
Get on it early.
We are opening GridAsset OS to a first group of clients, installers and partners while we build it out. Put your name down and we will set you up with a walkthrough and an account when your group opens.
A live walkthrough
Someone from our side takes you through it on your own numbers.
Early account access
Your sites loaded in as the groups open, ahead of general release.
A say in what gets built
Early users tell us what to build next, and we build it.
The catch, in plain terms.
Start with a free
site assessment.
In one visit we model your building, your usage and your tariff, and hand you a fixed monthly number with the projected saving, in writing.
If it doesn't beat your grid bill, we'll say so.