Solar for farms, designed around how your farm uses power
Cut electricity and diesel costs and keep pumps, cold rooms and milking running through grid outages. Orilla Solar measures your farm’s power for a week before we design anything.
- 100+ installations
- 5.0 on Google
- Sigenergy installer awards, 2024 & 2026
- 10-year manufacturer warranty
Farms use power differently
A farm is not a factory with a fence around it. Loads move with the seasons, supply points are spread across the property and the grid is often at the end of a long rural line. A good solar design has to start there.
Seasonal pumping
Irrigation can be heavy for months and light for the rest of the year, so the system has to be sized for how you actually farm.
Time-of-use tariffs
On Ruraflex, power costs most in peak hours. Moving pumping and other loads into sun hours can change your bill a great deal.
Grid outages and long lines
Rural supplies trip, dip and fail more often, and every outage puts animals, produce and water at risk.
Diesel generators
Generators cover the gaps, but fuel, servicing and running hours add up fast.
Fixed charges all year
Network and service charges are billed every month, whether the pumps run or not.
Several supply points
A pump house, dairy, workshop and farm house can each sit on a different meter, and each needs the right answer.
Built for the work that can’t wait
We work on all kinds of farms, from irrigation and dairy to poultry, packhouses and game farms. These are the loads we design for most.
Borehole and irrigation pumps
Boreholes, transfer pumps and centre pivots run in sun hours, filling dams and reservoirs so water is there when you need it.
Milking, cooling and hot water
Milking machines, bulk milk cooling and hot water keep to schedule, with batteries carrying you through outages.
Ventilation, lighting and heating
In a poultry house an outage is critical. Backup power keeps fans, lights and heating running.
Cold rooms and packhouses
Cooling, grading lines and packing run on your own solar power through the day, protecting produce and margins.
Workshops, offices and farm houses
Workshops, offices, staff housing and the main house can share a system or each get their own.
Electric fencing and security
Fences, cameras, gates and lighting stay powered, day and night, outage or not.
Generator replacement or reduction
Solar and batteries take over most of the generator’s work, so it runs as backup rather than every day.
Ruraflex peak-hour savings
Batteries cover peak hours and solar covers the day, so less of your power comes at the highest rates.
Ground mounts, rooftops and pump drives
Designed around how your farm uses power
monthly running costs vs the original bill, in our off-grid proposals (diesel included)
typical payback
Less grid, less diesel, more control
In our off-grid proposals, monthly running costs (diesel included) can drop to around 5% of the original bill. That’s before any finance repayments. Most systems pay for themselves in about 2 to 5 years.
Grid-tied and hybrid farms save in a different way, by using their own solar power in the day and avoiding peak-hour rates. Your proposal shows costs, savings and payback worked out from your own electricity data.
Figures depend on your logged data, tariff, diesel use and how the system is paid for.
Send us your Eskom accounts and our engineers will show you what solar and batteries would save on your farm.
From your Eskom account to a working system
Five clear steps. You always know what happens next and what we need from you.
Send your Eskom account(s)
Share your last 12 months of bills for each supply point, plus the farm’s location.
A week of data logging
Our engineers install data loggers to measure when and how your farm uses power.
Design and proposal
A design built around your data: Ruraflex timing, pumping into storage in sun hours, and costs, savings and payback set out clearly.
Installation and commissioning
Our own team installs the system, including ground mounts and trenching, and handles Eskom registration.
Monitoring and maintenance
We monitor and service every system we install, with maintenance plans (SLAs) wherever your farm is.
The right setup for each supply point
We design and install every type of farm system. Sigenergy is our primary battery platform, but we choose what suits each site.
Grid-tied
Solar runs your daytime loads and cuts what you buy from Eskom. The simplest way to lower a bill.
Hybrid with batteries
Solar plus batteries covers peak hours and keeps critical loads running through grid outages.
Off-grid
Independent of Eskom, with the generator kept only as backup. Ideal where the grid is weak, far away or costly to extend.
Solar pump drives
Pumps run straight off solar with no battery, filling tanks, dams or reservoirs while the sun shines.
One farm, more than one answer
A pump house, packhouse, dairy and farm house can each sit on their own meter. We look at every supply point and design one system or several, whichever gives the better result.
Farm systems start from about 50 kW.
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Ground mounts and installation
Many farms have more open ground than roof space. Our own team installs the ground-mount structures, trenching and cabling.
- Ground-mount and roof-mount systems
- Heavier civils handled with trusted partners, or with your own equipment if you prefer – many farmers can do basic earthworks themselves
- Eskom registration of the solar system (SSEG) on rural supplies handled for you
- Monitoring and maintenance for every system we install
Cash or finance
Many farmers pay cash. If you’d rather keep your capital for the farm, our finance partner is happy to fund farm solar.
- Partner finance usually takes about 2–4 weeks to approve
- You’ll need 2 years of financial statements
- Your proposal sets out cash and finance options side by side
- 10-year manufacturer warranty on inverters and batteries
A track record you can check
installations completed by Orilla Solar
rating on Google from our clients
Sigenergy installer awards, 2024 & 2026
“Very professional team and work!”
Gauteng and the surrounding provinces
We install, service and maintain farm systems across Gauteng and the full surrounding provinces.
- Gauteng
- Limpopo
- North West
- Mpumalanga
- Free State
Farm solar questions, answered
Straight answers on pumps, tariffs, diesel, finance and support.
See what solar can do for your farm
Send us your Eskom accounts and we’ll show you, from your own data, what solar and batteries will save, how quickly they pay back and how you could pay for them.