AMPROTEQ
Three ways to buy the same plant: outright, as energy under a power purchase agreement, or a hybrid of the two. The engineering does not change; who carries the capital and the risk does.
AMPROTEQ designs, funds, builds, owns, operates and maintains the plant on your site. You buy kilowatt-hours at an agreed rate with a fixed annual escalation for 10 to 25 years: no capital outlay, no maintenance obligation, no technology risk.
Buy the microgrid or any part of it (BESS, PCS, medium-voltage skid or the Solaris controller) as a supplied and commissioned asset. For well-defined configurations we arrange standardised financing with commercial banks, and carry O&M under a separate agreement.
Own the part that fits your capital plan, often the solar array, and take the storage and control layer under a PPA. Ownership, risk and escalation are split the way you want them.
| PPA | Outright purchase | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital outlay | None | Full system price; bank finance can be arranged for standard configurations | The part you own |
| Who owns the plant | AMPROTEQ | You | Split by agreement |
| Operation & maintenance | AMPROTEQ | You, or AMPROTEQ under a maintenance agreement | AMPROTEQ for its portion |
| Performance risk | AMPROTEQ | You, backed by warranties | Split by agreement |
| What you pay | R/kWh delivered, fixed annual escalation | Capex, plus O&M if contracted | A mix of both |
| Term | 10 to 25 years, take-or-pay | Life of the asset | Set per agreement |
Tax treatment of an owned plant depends on your own position; confirm it with your tax adviser.
The battery is designed for 20 years of daily cycling. Where an agreement runs longer, or the contracted capacity must hold for the full term, the agreement includes planned augmentation: modules are added, or aged ones replaced, as state of health falls, so the usable energy you contracted for is maintained.
That cost is priced into the rate from day one, so it never arrives as a surprise. We size it against the manufacturer's measured degradation data, published by dispatch duty on the Systems page.
Our proposals escalate grid tariffs at 9 % a year unless your site's tariff history says otherwise. NERSA approved 8.76 % for Eskom direct customers from 1 April 2026, 8.83 % from 1 April 2027, and 9.01 % for municipalities from 1 July 2026.
On those decisions Eskom's average tariff reaches about 251 c/kWh in 2027/28, against 19.9 c/kWh in 2007/08.
Sources: Eskom, March 2026 · our tariff note
Levelised cost of storage puts every offer on one basis: everything the system will cost, divided by everything it will deliver.
Twelve months of interval data, your tariff schedule and your notified maximum demand are enough for a first sizing, an indicative capex and a PPA rate, within five working days, at no cost.