Residential Solar & Storage

Powering Tomorrow with Clean Energy

Reliable and Scalable energy solutions. Professional solar installations with advanced monitoring and AI driven energy management systems for your home.

Clean Energy, Expertly Delivered

Baartman Energy is a distributed energy provider delivering reliable, affordable, and low carbon electricity solutions to homes and businesses across South Africa.

AI driven Energy Management

Our intelligent energy platform continuously learns your home's energy habits, optimizing solar generation, battery storage, and electricity consumption to maximize savings, improve reliability, and extend the life of your system.

  • AI powered optimization of solar generation and battery usage
  • Real time monitoring of energy production, consumption, and battery health
  • Smart load management based on your household's energy patterns
  • Predictive maintenance with early fault detection and remote diagnostics
  • Weather aware energy forecasting for improved backup readiness
  • Actionable insights through an intuitive mobile and web dashboard

Home Installation Systems

Tailored residential systems with professional installation and monitoring.

01

Residential Solar

Complete solar PV and battery systems for your home with professional installation and monitoring.

  • Solar panels and inverters
  • Battery storage systems
  • 24/7 remote monitoring
  • Installation & maintenance
02

Backup & Load Shedding

Systems sized around what actually needs to stay on, from essential circuits to full home coverage.

  • Essential circuit backup
  • Whole home coverage options
  • Automatic changeover
  • Load shedding schedule sync

Choose Your System

Four starting points, from essential backup to near total grid independence. Every package includes installation, commissioning, and monitoring setup.

Essential
Keep the essentials running
R55,000 – R85,000
3 kWp
Solar
5 kWh
Battery
  • Lights, WiFi & essential circuits
  • Basic monitoring app
  • Standard installation
  • 5-year workmanship warranty
Premium
Full home coverage
R150,000 – R220,000
8 kWp
Solar
15 kWh
Battery
  • Whole-home incl. geyser & aircon
  • AI driven monitoring & analytics
  • Priority installation slot
  • 10-year workmanship warranty
Ultimate
Near grid independence
R250,000 – R350,000
12+ kWp
Solar
20+ kWh
Battery
  • Near total grid independence
  • AI driven monitoring & analytics with predictive maintenance monitoring
  • Dedicated account manager
  • 10-year workmanship warranty

Final pricing depends on roof condition, panel placement, and a free on-site assessment. All packages include installation and commissioning.

Request a Quote

We offer free site inspection.

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How much does load shedding affect you?

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Get In Touch

Have questions? We're here to help you transition to clean energy.

Contact Information

Reach out to us and let's start your clean energy journey together.

Email
baartmanenergy@gmail.com
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Commercial & Independent Power Production

Distributed Power for Business

Scalable commercial energy systems and a growing independent power producer platform, built to cut costs, ensure uptime, and eventually aggregate distributed generation for wheeling and grid services.

Commercial Energy Solutions

Scalable systems for SMEs, office parks, and future IPP participation.

01

SME & Office Parks

Scalable energy solutions for businesses to reduce costs and ensure uptime.

  • Commercial scale systems
  • Load management
  • Peak demand optimization
  • Business continuity
02

Wheeling & Grid Services

Longer-term plans to aggregate distributed generation and offer wheeling arrangements to commercial customers.

  • Distributed generation aggregation
  • Power wheeling agreements
  • Grid services participation
  • Multi-site coordination
03

Energy Management

The same real-time monitoring and optimization platform used across our residential fleet, scaled for commercial sites.

  • Real time monitoring dashboard
  • Performance analytics
  • Predictive maintenance alerts
  • Energy usage optimization

Commercial & IPP Projects

From near term commercial installs to a longer-term distributed energy network.

Conceptual
Commercial

SME Office Park Solution

Planned commercial installation providing reliable power to office parks and SME facilities in the Cape Town metropolitan area with comprehensive energy management.

120 kWp
Solar Capacity
240 kWh
Battery Storage
Phase 2
Development
Planning
Status
Future Development
IPP

Distributed Energy Network

Next-generation platform aggregating distributed energy resources for grid services and wheeling. Long-term vision for scalable, independent energy provision.

Phase 3
Development
Multiple
Sites
Smart Grid
Technology
Conceptual
Status

Discuss a Commercial Project

Reach out about SME, office park, or IPP partnership opportunities.

Contact Information

Tell us about your site and load profile, and we'll follow up with next steps.

Email
baartmanenergy@gmail.com
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Deep Tech · Nuclear

BRT-MR1 Microreactor

A transportable, container scale microreactor under active design, built for firm, dispatchable nucler power. This is our core deep tech research programme running alongside our distributed solar business.

Mark 5 Design Specifications

The current BRT-MR1 iteration, modelled in OpenMC using ENDF/B-VIII.0 nuclear data, sized to fit within standard freight infrastructure.

1.1200
k-effective (±0.0020)
HALEU
UN Fuel Monolith
Sodium
Heat Pipe Cooling
6m ISO
Container Footprint

Core Design

The Mark 5 core pairs a uranium nitride HALEU fuel monolith with sodium heat pipes for passive heat removal, and beryllium oxide (BeO) reflectors to improve neutron economy.

  • UN HALEU fuel monolith
  • Sodium heat pipe heat removal
  • BeO neutron reflectors
  • B₄C / BeO control drums

Modelling & Methods

Five design iterations (Mark 1 through Mark 5) were simulated in OpenMC on a WSL/Ubuntu/Miniconda toolchain, using ENDF/B-VIII.0 nuclear data libraries.

  • OpenMC Monte Carlo neutronics
  • ENDF/B-VIII.0 cross-section data
  • Custom post-processing pipeline generating 12 physics figures per run
  • Iterative design refinement across 5 generations

Design Evolution

From an early HTGR concept to the current sodium heat-pipe direction.

01

CAMR-100 Concept

Earlier 100 kWe high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR) concept using TRISO pebble fuel and a helium Brayton cycle, with a detailed cost breakdown and South African NNR regulatory context.

02

BRT-MR1 Mark 1–4

Four successive OpenMC design iterations moving toward a sodium heat pipe cooled, HALEU fuelled architecture sized for container transport.

03

BRT-MR1 Mark 5 (Current)

Latest iteration reaching k-effective of 1.1200 ± 0.0020, with UN HALEU fuel, sodium heat pipes, BeO reflectors, and B₄C/BeO control drums sized to fit a 6m ISO container.

Funding & Partnership Strategy

A Power as a Service commercial model paired with strategic partnerships and funding routes.

Commercial Model

Baartman Energy is pursuing a Power as a Service model for BRT-MR1: customers contract for delivered power rather than purchasing and operating a reactor themselves.

Funding & Partners

Funding strategy targets Y Combinator, the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, and Knife Capital, alongside a potential partnership with NECSA, South Africa's national nuclear energy corporation.

  • Norfund
  • Allan Gray Orbis Foundation
  • Knife Capital
  • NECSA partnership / EOI

Research & Partnership Enquiries

For research collaboration, investment, or regulatory partnership enquiries relating to BRT-MR1.

Contact Information

Get in touch about the microreactor programme.

Email
baartmanenergy@gmail.com
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Join Us

Build The Energy Future

We're a small, fast moving team working across distributed solar and next generation nuclear power. If you want your work to matter, get in touch.

Current Openings

We're a lean team every hire has real ownership from day one. Don't see an exact fit? Reach out anyway.

Cape Town Full-time Research

Reactor Physics Researcher

Support OpenMC neutronics modelling for the BRT-MR1 microreactor programme — core design iteration, criticality analysis, and shielding studies.

Cape Town Full-time Engineering

Mechanical / Systems Engineer

Work on thermal hydraulic design and container scale packaging for the microreactor, plus mechanical design support for commercial solar installations.

Cape Town Full-time Field

Solar Installation Technician

Install and commission residential and commercial solar PV and battery systems, and support ongoing maintenance across our growing installed base.

Cape Town Full-time Business

Business Development & Partnerships

Drive funding, grant, and partnership conversations across our commercial solar pipeline and the microreactor programme, including NECSA and investor relationships.

Small Team, Real Ownership

You'll work directly with the founder across both the solar business and the reactor programme, not in a silo.

Deep Tech, Practical Delivery

We move between rigorous physics work and hands-on installation work in the same week.

Built for Africa

Every system we design is built for South African grid conditions and regulatory realities from the start.

Don't See Your Role?

Send us your CV and tell us where you'd add the most value.

Careers Contact

We review every application personally.

Email
baartmanenergy@gmail.com
Location
Cape Town, South Africa