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Power your home with a system designed around how your family actually lives

A house that is empty until evening needs a different system from one occupied all day with cooling running. We design for the household you have.

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The problem

The household problems solar is actually solving

Most Nigerian homes run two supplies at once — a grid connection that bills whether or not it delivers, and a generator that swallows fuel and servicing. Neither is a solution.

The design question in a home is almost always overnight autonomy: does the system carry the household from evening through to sunrise without anyone thinking about it?

Unreliable grid

Supply on no schedule, and evenings spent waiting for it.

Generator costs

Fuel every week, servicing every few months, replacement eventually.

Appliance demand

Fridges, pumps and cooling that draw far more at startup than they run at.

Backup shortfalls

A system that dies at 2am is a system that was never sized properly.

How a home project runs

Understand, size, design, install, support

Five stages. Nothing gets ordered before stage three is agreed.

Understand

What your household runs, when, and which of it must never go off.

Size

Array, inverter and storage calculated from that load and your backup window.

Design

A written specification with the array, inverter and storage set out clearly.

Install

Our engineers fit, wire, configure and test the system.

Support

Handover, guidance on reading the system, and ongoing maintenance arrangements.

Sunnovate engineer carrying a solar panel on a rooftop

Start with your appliances

You should not need to know inverter ratings to buy a system

The system finder asks what you run and how long you need it for. It works out array size, inverter rating and battery capacity from there, and shows the system taking shape as you answer.

It is free, takes about three minutes, and the estimate is yours whether or not you buy from us. If a smaller system covers what you need, that is what it will tell you.

Fridges, freezers and lighting as the always-on base

Air conditioning assessed separately — it changes the whole design

Pumps and irons treated as short high-draw events, not continuous load

Estate installations coordinated across units where required

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Solution categories

Four routes into a home system

Most households start with one and extend later. Designing with that in mind costs nothing now and saves a great deal afterwards.

Solar systems

Generation sized to your roof and your daily consumption.

Roof survey · Shade analysis

Inverter solutions

Clean changeover and enough headroom for your heaviest appliance.

Surge rated · Hybrid capable

Battery storage

Overnight autonomy, sized to the hours you actually need.

Lithium · Tubular

Backup power

Reliable supply without committing to a full solar strategy first.

Automatic · Quiet

Proof of work

Residential installations

Real projects from the Sunnovate portfolio.

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Solar energy

Installation of 10KW / 6KWP solar inverter solution

Solar energy

Installation of 5KW / 3KWP system

Integrated

Fire alarm, solar lights and surveillance cameras

System finder

Design your home energy system

Six questions about your property and your appliances. The tool returns an indicative array, inverter and storage size you can bring to the conversation.

Built for households, not engineers

No obligation and no cost

Confirmed by site assessment before you commit

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Sunnovate system finder

Step 2 of 7 · Appliances

Start with your property type

House Apartment Office Shop Facility

Estimated daily energy

9.9 kWh

Solar array

3 kWp

Inverter

3.5 kW

Storage

10 kWh

Example output for a family home with air conditioning. Your result is calculated from your own answers.

Common questions

What buyers ask us

What size system does a typical home need?

There is no typical home. A three-bedroom house without air conditioning and the same house with two units running are completely different problems. The system finder gives you an indicative size from your own appliance list in about three minutes.

Will it run my air conditioner?

Yes, if it is designed to. Cooling is usually the single largest load in a home and it must be declared at sizing stage — retrofitting capacity for it later is considerably more expensive.

How long does installation take?

It varies with system size, roof type and whether existing wiring needs work. We confirm the schedule with you after the site assessment, once the specification is agreed.

Can I start small and expand?

Yes, and it is a sensible approach. Tell us at design stage that you expect to expand, so the inverter and configuration are chosen with headroom rather than needing replacement.

Do you work outside Lagos?

We are based in Ikeja, Lagos and install across Nigeria. Tell us where the property is when you enquire and we will confirm scheduling.

Protect the infrastructure that powers your property.

The same team that designs your power system installs the cameras, access control and fire detection that protect it — specified together, on one backup path.

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Next step

Design my home energy system

Start with the system finder, then talk to us with a size in hand.

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