Characterised, not quoted
Rated output, efficiency curve and failure modes are measured on the bench before a configuration is released.
Manufacturing & local content
Import the machines once, not the product forever
More than nine in ten of the region's panels, batteries and inverters arrive on a ship. That is months of lead time, a currency exposure and no local capability at the end of it. ENA's manufacturing programme moves the build onshore instead.
Phase one · target capacity
What the first plant is sized to produce
A single site of roughly three to five hectares covering module lamination, lithium pack assembly, inverter production and POPS build — the four things that otherwise all come from somewhere else.
Solar modules~150 MW per year
Lithium storage~200 MWh per year
Inverters~50,000 units per year
POPS~100,000 units per year
Footprint3 – 5 hectares
Programme targets for the first phase, not current installed capacity.
The ramp
100 MW, then 500, then a gigawatt
Capacity is added against contracted demand rather than ahead of it, in three phases over roughly six years.
Years 1–2 · 100 MW
First plant commissioned and qualified. Output goes to captive and commercial projects already under contract.
Years 3–4 · 500 MW
Second line and deeper local content. Regional export into ECOWAS begins from Nigerian production.
Years 5–6 · 1 GW
Full programme capacity, paired with roughly 1.5 to 2 GWh of storage across the same demand base.
Throughout
Utility and anchor load, commercial rooftop, residential and mini-grids each carry a defined share of the roadmap.
Why it matters commercially
Weeks instead of months
A standard configuration built locally can be on site in one to two weeks. The same configuration imported is a purchase order, a factory queue, a sailing, a port and a clearance — and a price that moves with the exchange rate while you wait. Shortening that is the single biggest lever on whether a decentralised project actually gets built.
The impact case →1–2 wktarget build-to-site, standard configurations
500+direct jobs targeted
3,000+indirect jobs targeted
Quality
Nothing ships on a datasheet alone
Built for the climate
Thermal and humidity behaviour are qualified against the conditions the product will actually live in, not a temperate average.
Serviceable by design
Packs open, modules come off one at a time, cabinets take standard tools — because the maintenance is local too.
Second life designed in
Cells below their stationary threshold are triaged and re-graded rather than scrapped at the first derate.
Standards-led
Products are specified and certified against the standards of the market they ship into, including GSAS for Gulf projects.
Partnerships
ENA works with equipment OEMs and university energy departments on cell chemistry, power electronics and grid-edge control.
Manufacturing or supply-chain partner?
Equipment vendors, EPC contractors and distributors: the programme is open to partners in production, logistics and regional distribution.