GREENetwork – Africa’s largest solar installer network
A network that exists to empower your solar business
You may be new to the PV Solar industry, but you certainly are not going it alone. The solar market in South Africa is huge, so we can happily share knowledge! It was exactly for this purpose that we founded the GREENetwork.
Doing business is hard, even when it is in an industry you’ve known your whole career. So when you made the decision to pivot to solar or include solar energy in your offerings, you might be wondering just HOW you’re going to succeed. Training is the start … but what comes next?
Become a GREEN Alumni and join the GREENetwork. The GREENetwork is South Africa’s largest and most established network of solar companies large and small, distributors, manufacturers and policy makers in the solar industry, and it was established with the sole purpose of growing your business. And you’ll find GREEN Alumni firmly entrenched throughout this network.
What does the GREENetwork do for you?
The GREENetwork was built to benefit YOU. It opens the door to the industry, removes the roadblocks and makes the well-travelled paths clear to newcomers. Let’s explore the ways that the network works for you:
- It connects you to other installers, especially seasoned professionals, so that you can ask questions and get immediate feedback.
- It offers opportunities to collaborate, especially on larger projects, so you don’t have to turn away the work.
- It connects you to global manufacturers and their local wholesalers. Put faces to the names so you can build up those relationships.
- It enables further skills development by sharing news of product training and discounts at suppliers and webinars on your preferred brands.
- You qualify for the 10% GREEN Alumni Discount for your PV GreenCard Assessment and further advanced training with GREEN.
- Newsletters, and exclusive Alumni meetings and events will be your source of the most current news, best practices and trends in the solar industry.
- It gives you access to work-ready interns from our youth training projects. Help formulate the future of the solar industry by giving these interns a space to work and grow.
- It’s a place for you to give back to the industry, perhaps even as a mentor to the next generation of technicians and installers.
How do you gain access to the network?
Every person who trains through GREEN Solar Academy and becomes a GREENAlumni has access to this solar network from Day 1. And once you’re in, the sky is the limit – you need to decide how active you want to be and how you will harness all the benefits it offers to connect, collaborate and succeed.
GREENetwork activities
When you join this network there will be lots of ways you can start to get involved. Theses are just a few of the GREENetworking activities that you can learn from, lend a hand to and use to empower your business.
From the Alumni Telegram/WhatsApp groups, which act like a live forum, to the youth training and workplace experience for upskilled youth; there is always something to get involved in or learn from.
The Alumni channels in action…
…no gatekeeping here, only collaboration!
Youth Training
Alumni Events
Projects
Alumni Meetings
Trade shows
Product Training
How to use the GREENetwork to your advantage
- Do the training and become an alumni
- Get added to the network
- Get some advice from other installers on how to get started or on product selection
- Use the installer hand out and tech partner connections to select your working products
- Build a relationship with the manufacturer/wholesale through the GREENetwork connections
- Complete a few projects
- Stay up to date with industry news and tech through Newsletters and webinars
- Identify a skills gap and book further training (with your GREEN Alumni discount)
- EMPOWER YOUR BUSINESS
Technology Partners
It is our mission to train the competent solar installers and engineers of tomorrow. Practical training is not possible from an ivory tower so we keep close contact with the solar industry and introduce as much product variety in our trainings as possible. We teach the participants how to find and select components and how to verify good quality. All brands and companies that we work with support our mission to provide excellent education and help us by equipping the solar components used in our trainings, sharing their experience or realising networking events with us.
All the companies we work with are carefully selected, they have our trust and we would use their products to build PV systems for our own homes. For mutual support and transparency, we list all our industry partners here. To get in touch with any of them, please contact us or visit their websites.
Axiz Solar Technologies serves the South African and Sub-Saharan markets, and remains true to the channel centric model, setting up key resellers in each market and supporting them with the steady supply of the best solar products, training and credit. With solar modules, trackers, both string and hybrid inverters, storage solutions as well as off-grid kits, Axiz Solar Technologies is well positioned to meet the needs of small scale installers right through to the supply of large scale C&I and utility scale projects.
Get Off Grid is a wholesale supplier of Solar and Off-Grid power equipment, and a leading distributor of Victron Energy products, BSL Batteries and other premium brands. They are also a Victron Energy repair centre. Their fully-accredited and experienced installation team is able to handle any solar solution or backup system installation, from small residential systems to larger commercial and industrial application systems.
IBC SOLAR is a leading global solutions and services provider for photovoltaics and energy storage, providing their clients with the entire spectrum, from planning, designing, distribution and services up to the turnkey supply of photovoltaic installations in certain markets. The local team operates in Cape Town and Johannesburg servicing clients in the South African core market as well as the Sub Sahara region.
Established since 2005, Tino Solutions Limited is a leading renewable energy EPC and project management company specialized in the provision of turnkey and tailored solar photovoltaic (PV) power solutions for public, industrial / commercial and residential developments. Aside installation of solar systems, we have been in the sale and distribution of renewable solar components like inverters, panels, charge controllers, battery monitors, solar batteries, etc.
Valsa Trading designs, manufactures and supplies mounting system solutions for all types of roofs, carports, ground, pole, facade, floating and tensile cable applications. A full range of PV Solar energy products is also available.