Operations and maintenance for commercial and industrial solar plants, whoever built them.

For property funds, shopping centres and industrial owners across South Africa: monitoring, maintenance and a monthly report your board can use.

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80+ MWp
Commercial and industrial solar PV and battery plants under management in South Africa
35+ MWp
Built by other installers and taken over

Company figures as at October 2026.

Low aerial view across rows of rooftop solar modules on the Belgotex factory, with a white plant building and silos on the skyline — Belgotex, rooftop solar array

Operating plants at sites for

Where most owners start

Your plant was built by another installer.
We take it over and report on it like every other plant.
How a takeover runs
Your plant isn’t producing what it should.
A performance gap report shows what it produced against what it should have.
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You run a portfolio of sites.
One operator and one monthly report across every site.
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Taking over a plant another installer built

Jubilee Mall: 1,385 kWp taken over. Belgotex: a failing third-party system replaced.

The four steps in full

Audit
The plant as found
Remediation
Defects put right
Onboarding to monitoring
Onto a platform we watch
First monthly report
In the owner’s report from then on

Figures from a selection of the sites we manage

The 68 sites with verified performance data on file (July 2026), 40.3 MWp in all. The three largest groups of owners among them:

The selection in figures

Property funds and shopping centres
Many centres, plants from several installers, and one report for the fund. Vukile Property Fund’s centres run under one operator.
28 retail and shopping centre sites
16,607 kWp
Industrial
Manufacturing, food and pharmaceutical sites, where the plant has to work around production.
13 industrial sites
12,036 kWp
Commercial
Commercial property and businesses that want one monthly report their finance team can use.
24 commercial property sites
10,905 kWp

By sector, July 2026. Industrial combines the manufacturing, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical rows. Bars compare each group’s capacity.

The Shelly Centre roof from directly above, covered in rows of solar modules, between a neighbouring roof and the rooftop car park — Shelly Centre, rooftop solar plant

What we look after on every plant

Eight services, each working on its own part of the plant. Choose one to see where it works, or open it for the detail.

All eight services, side by side

IllustrativePowerMonitoring dataWhere the selected service works

Module cleaning
Removing the dust and residue that hold back a module’s output.
Inspection and testing
Thermography and IV-curve tracing, to find hot spots and weak strings.
Inverter and BESS maintenance
Servicing inverters, and battery storage where a site has it.
Preventive maintenance
Scheduled inspection and servicing, planned in advance.
Corrective maintenance
Diagnosis and repair when a fault takes equipment out of service.
Spares management
Keeping critical spare parts available for repairs.
Remote monitoring
Generation and equipment status, watched through each plant’s platform.
Monthly reporting
A report to each owner every month, read from the revenue meter.

Monthly figures you can take to the board

Each figure is read from the revenue meter or the plant’s monitoring platform, and checked against the client’s monthly production report.

Generation against expected. The meter’s generation, set against what the plant should have produced.
Every figure says what it is. Measured, annualised or estimated, so a board pack never mixes them.
The work behind the numbers. Faults from alarm to close-out, and the maintenance done and planned.

See all seven sections

Monthly performance report · Section 1 of 7

2,511MWhMeasured

Ballito Lifestyle Centre, 2,074 kWp · last measured year

Specific yield, kWh/kWp a year

Ballito Lifestyle CentreOver two full measured years: 1,211 kWh/kWpMeasured
The 68 sites with verified performance dataCapacity-weighted, July 2026: 1,112 kWh/kWp

Ballito Lifestyle Centre, a plant Sunbird Solar built. Figures as published on the Case studies page.

Plants we took over, and plants we built

All five case studies

Shopping centreGauteng

Jubilee Mall

3,522 kWp built1,385 kWp taken over

4,420MWh

Last measured year, Sunbird-built plant Measured

ManufacturingKwaZulu-Natal

Belgotex

2,040 kWp built1,400 kWp taken over

2,190MWh

Last measured year, Sunbird-built plant Measured

Shopping centreKwaZulu-Natal

Ballito Lifestyle Centre

2,074 kWp built

1,211kWh/kWp/yr

Over two full measured years Measured

Figures from the case studies, July 2026. Output and savings are published only from a complete measured year on the plant’s own meter; in these case studies, that means the plants Sunbird Solar built.

Engineering backing from Sunbird Solar

Sunbird O&M is the sister company of Sunbird Solar (Pty) Ltd. Every plant Sunbird Solar builds is handed to us to operate, and we take on plants built by any other installer.

How the two companies work together

The plants Sunbird Solar has built are on its own site.

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