Plexus Energy and Growatt Partner to Advance Solar Energy Solutions in Kenya
Kenyan clean energy firm Plexus Energy has announced an exclusive partnership with Growatt, one of the world’s largest solar inverter manufacturers, in a deal that will see the Chinese company’s technology distributed across Kenya and the broader East African region for the first time.
The partnership was unveiled at a launch event at Pride Inn Westlands in Nairobi on Monday, bringing together solar industry professionals, engineering contractors and commercial energy buyers for product demonstrations and technical briefings.
For Plexus Energy’s CEO Edward Kinyanjui, the tie-up marks a strategic shift in how his company thinks about energy solutions. “We are moving from basic solar to intelligent energy ecosystems, systems that monitor every unit of power, generate income, and are designed for how Kenya actually works,” he said. Kinyanjui, who founded Plexus in 2010, framed the partnership in blunt terms: “In Africa, power is not a convenience, it is survival.”
The timing is deliberate. Kenya’s commercial and industrial sectors continue to grapple with unreliable grid supply from KPLC and rising electricity costs, making the economics of solar increasingly attractive. Plexus, which has spent 15 years building an installation and maintenance footprint across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Rwanda, says the Growatt product range fills a gap it has long sought to address.
Under the agreement, Plexus will distribute Growatt’s full inverter lineup covering on-grid, off-grid, hybrid and storage configurations, and will back sales with localised technical support and after-sales service from its field engineering team. The partnership also includes a training component, with capacity-building for Kenya’s wider solar installation community delivered through the Plexus Solar Academy.
Growatt brings considerable scale to the arrangement. The company has a global installed capacity exceeding 100 gigawatts across more than 150 countries and manufactures products spanning residential rooftop systems through to utility-scale infrastructure and electric vehicle charging equipment.
Kinyanjui said the choice of partner was not made lightly. “We chose Growatt because they invest in real innovation, they build systems that can scale, and they are open to local realities. What works in Europe does not always work in Isiolo,” he said, referring to the remote northern Kenyan town as shorthand for the operational conditions that distinguish African deployments from those in more developed markets.
The partnership is targeting commercial and industrial clients as a primary market, positioning Growatt hardware as a cost-competitive alternative to diesel generation and grid dependency. Residential customers, schools, hospitals, hotels and factories are also listed as target segments.
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