Independent engineering for solar in Ghana
We do not sell panels and we do not install them. We are engaged by the owner - to specify what should be built, to make sure that is what gets built, to prove it works, and to keep it working.
Modules in Ghana lose output around three times faster than a twenty-five year warranty assumes. Most systems here have a claimable shortfall for most of their life. Almost nobody claims it, because nobody measured the system when it was new.
What goes wrong
Not fears. Things that happen, most of them measured in published research or checked directly. Where there is a source, it is named.
You cannot check whether your installer is licensed
Ghana's Energy Commission licenses solar installers and registers the equipment they sell. None of those registers is publicly searchable. An owner abroad has no way to confirm the company quoting them is licensed, or that the panel on the quotation is legal to sell here.
Checked 17 August 2026: the licence portal requires a login and has no public lookup.
The system degrades faster than the warranty assumes
Twenty-two modules measured after sixteen years in northern Ghana had lost a median of 24.6% of their output. The global median is around 0.5% a year. A typical Ghanaian system falls below its warranted curve within a year or two and stays there.
Quansah & Adaramola 2018, Solar Energy 174, doi:10.1016/j.solener.2018.08.021
Nobody measured it when it was new
A warranty claim compares today's output against the system's own baseline. Without an IV curve traced at commissioning there is nothing to compare against, and the manufacturer is entitled to say so. Commissioning to IEC 62446-1 takes an afternoon. Skipping it removes the ability to claim anything for twenty-five years.
The monitoring account belongs to the installer
Every inverter maker gives free monitoring, and it is locked to their own hardware. Those accounts are usually created by the installer in the installer's name. When the installer stops trading, the owner loses the performance history, the as-built record and the warranty paperwork on the same afternoon - which is exactly when all three are needed.
Substitution happens between the quote and the roof
The commonest is cable a size down: invisible once installed, saves the installer real money, and costs the owner energy every sunny hour for twenty-five years. A cloned Tier 1 module label carries no warranty at all - the claim is void from the day it goes up.
Four stages, one chain
Each stage produces the evidence the next one needs. The design sets what good looks like, programme management makes sure that is what gets built, commissioning proves it and records the baseline, and maintenance keeps it true and keeps the warranty claimable. Break any link and the chain stops paying - most obviously at commissioning, where a missing baseline quietly removes the owner's ability to claim anything for the next twenty-five years.
Solar consultancy
Decide what should be built, on numbers that hold up
What it covers STAGE 2Programme management
Get it built without the scope quietly eroding
What it covers STAGE 3Commissioning
Prove what was built matches what was specified
What it covers STAGE 4Operations & maintenance
Keep it that way, and keep the warranty claimable
What it coversWhy independent matters
Every other tool and adviser in this market is paid by somebody selling you a system. That is not a criticism of them; it is a description of the incentive.
We take no fee from any installer, supplier or manufacturer
Not a commission, not a referral fee, not a discount. We are paid by the owner and nobody else. This is the whole product: an opinion that is worth something is one that could have gone the other way.
We do not sell or install equipment
There is no equipment we benefit from specifying. When we say a system should be 6 kW rather than 10, nothing about that costs or earns us anything.
We name no preferred suppliers
We will tell you what to put on the order and what to check when it arrives. We will not tell you who to buy from, because the moment we do we are a sales channel rather than an engineer.
You own everything we produce
The specification, the commissioning records, the serial register, the maintenance history. Held in your name so it survives us as well as your installer.
Who this is for
Diaspora property owners
You are paying for a system you will never physically inspect, in a country where you may already have been let down on a building project. We are your engineer on the ground.
Schools, clinics and churches
Institutions that run on donated or fundraised capital, where a system failing in year four is not a disappointment but the end of the project. The maintenance regime matters more here than anywhere.
Small and medium commercial
5 kW to 500 kW - too small for the independent engineers who serve utility-scale projects, too large to guess at. This band is served by nobody, which is why we built for it.
Lenders and grant funders
If you are financing a system, somebody should verify it exists, works, and matches what was financed. At utility scale that is standard practice. Below it, almost nobody does it.
Start with the quotation you already have
The most common first engagement, and the cheapest. A fixed-fee review of the sizing, the equipment, the certifications and the terms — and a list of what to go back and ask for.
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