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, 8–12% 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.
100% 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.
For the life of the deal.
Monitoring and maintenance stay on our book. If a component fails, replacing it is our cost, not the client's.
On a fixed 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.
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.
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.
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.
Hybrid inverters paired with lithium-iron-phosphate battery storage and fast backup switchover, for clean, stable power and seamless protection against outages.
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 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.
Commercial & Industrial
Warehouses, factories and logistics parks with large, predictable daytime load.
Agriculture & Farming
Packhouses, cold chain, irrigation and processing that run hard on power.
Wine Farms & Estates
Cellars, cooling and hospitality, where margin is sensitive to energy cost.
Hospitality & Tourism
Lodges, hotels and resorts that need uninterrupted, quiet, clean power.
Healthcare & Education
Hospitals, clinics, schools and campuses that cannot afford to go dark.
Luxury Residential
Estate homes and high-consumption households wanting independence from the grid.
The market has
already moved.
Sources: NERSA tariff determinations; Eskom embedded-generation data (≈983 MW Mar 2022 to 7,345 MW Aug 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 3–5% 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 8–12% a year. The kind of certainty you can actually budget around.
The catch, in plain terms.
Yes. GridAsset funds 100% of the hardware and installation. There is no deposit, no bank loan and no credit application. You start paying a fixed monthly rental only once the system is commissioned and switched on.
The system becomes yours. After the rental term, ownership of the panels, inverters and batteries transfers to you, and you keep generating your own power with no further rental.
A PPA sells you electricity at a per-kWh tariff that escalates every year, and the provider keeps the system. With our rental you pay a fixed rand figure with 0% escalation, and you own the system at the end of the term. You build towards an asset instead of renting power indefinitely.
We do. Monitoring, maintenance and component replacement sit on GridAsset's book for the full term. If the system underperforms, that is our risk to fix, not a cost passed back to you.
No. This is a single rental agreement for the system itself. There is no bond registered over your property and no lien on your other assets.
It is a multi-year rental, not month-to-month. During the term the system stays on our books and we carry the capital, maintenance and performance risk. In return you commit to the term, and at the end of it ownership transfers to you. Your exact rental, term and conditions are confirmed in writing in your proposal.
Your installed system stays on your site, and the manufacturer warranties on the panels, inverters and batteries are ring-fenced to your building regardless of what happens to us. Our projects are funded through structured asset-finance arrangements, so the system and its cover stay with the site.
Nothing. We model your building, your usage and your current tariff, then put a fixed monthly number and projected saving on the table, in writing.
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.
- ✓ Zero upfront capital
- ✓ 0% rental escalation
- ✓ No bond over your property
- ✓ You own it at the end