ResourcePrime Engineering / Field Services — Chad & the Sahel
Solar assets fail long before the panels do.
- Electrification rate
- 12%
Chad, 2023 — among the lowest recorded in Central Africa.
- Consumption per capita
- 13.7 kWh
Against a Central African average of 311 kWh.
- System losses
- 29%
Losses across transmission and distribution.
- Delivered diesel cost
- $0.35–0.50/kWh
Typical industrial self-generation, N’Djamena.
Four services
Each layer supports the one above it.
These are not four separate offers sold in parallel. Diagnostics on the installed base tell us what actually breaks in Sahelian conditions. That evidence writes the training curriculum. Trained technicians make hybrid installation and mini-grid operation possible at scale. We build downward before we build upward.
Entry layer
Asset audit, rehabilitation & O&M
Recovering value from what is already installed
Solar systems across Chad underperform within months of commissioning. Dust deposition alone can remove up to 30% of output where no cleaning regime exists. Most installations have no performance baseline, no maintenance budget, and no owner of record for faults — so degradation goes unmeasured until the system stops entirely.
Scope of work
- Asset inventory and geolocation
- String-level performance testing
- Thermal imaging and fault mapping
- Inverter and battery health assessment
- Soiling analysis and cleaning regime design
- Rehabilitation scope and cost estimate
- Performance-guaranteed O&M contracts
- Remote monitoring and reporting
Who this is for
Ministries and programme implementation units, DFI-funded electrification programmes, telecom tower operators, industrial site owners, oilfield and mining camp operators.
Entry layer
Technical capacity building
A workforce certified against real failure data
Curriculum
- PV installation and commissioning
- Inverter and BESS configuration
- Fault diagnosis and thermography
- Preventive maintenance protocols
- Hybrid controller and genset interface
- HSE and permit-to-work standards
- Technical French and reporting
- Employer-readiness and placement
Who this is for
Utilities and regulators, EPC contractors, programme units with local-content obligations, early-career engineers entering the sector. Delivered through ResourcePrime Academy.
Entry layer
C&I and extractives hybrid systems
Displacing diesel where the load is largest
Industrial, commercial and extractives operators in Chad carry some of the highest self-generation costs in the region. Fuel is trucked long distances, gensets run continuously, and the cost sits directly in the cost of goods. For extractives sites, the same fuel now also carries a Scope 1 reporting burden.
Scope of work
- Load profiling and fuel baseline
- Hybrid sizing and control strategy
- Heat-tolerant module and inverter specification
- Dust and soiling mitigation design
- Battery storage integration
- Self-consumption and IPP permitting
- Import, corridor logistics and customs
- Commissioning and handover to O&M
Who this is for
Manufacturing in the N’Djamena industrial belt, agro-processing in cotton, sesame and edible oils, beverage and bottling, cold-chain storage, telecommunications, oilfield and pipeline facilities, mining camps, large commercial real estate.
Entry layer
Mini-grid development & EPC
Electrifying secondary cities and processing hubs
Scope of work
- Site selection and demand assessment
- Ability-to-pay and tariff modelling
- Generation, storage and distribution design
- Licensing and regulatory approvals
- Grant and results-based finance structuring
- Construction and contractor management
- Metering and mobile-money collections
- Operations, or O&M handover to the owner
Who this is for
Ministries and rural electrification agencies, DFI-funded access programmes, corridor and processing towns including Moundou, Abéché, Sarh and Kélo, agro-industrial anchor loads.
We earn the right to the next layer.
Stage one — Enter
Audit and certify
Establish presence through diagnostics on the installed base and the first certified technician cohort. Revenue from private and industrial O&M contracts; institutional relationships through programme-funded audit work.
Stage two — Extend
Convert to systems
Audit findings become the sales conversation. Every site we inspect has a measured fuel baseline and a quantified loss — which is the strongest possible basis for a hybrid proposal. Activates on the first signed O&M contracts and a completed extractives site audit.
Stage three — Scale
Build the grid edge
With a certified workforce, an operating track record and programme prequalification in place, we take on mini-grid development and delivery. Activates on operator prequalification and a deployable technician roster.
Why we can deliver here
Chad is served from the coast, and we are already on it.
Every module, inverter and battery entering Chad arrives overland from Douala. That corridor runs 1,800km inside the CEMAC customs union, with rail as far as Ngaoundéré, and it is the single largest source of cost and delay in any Chadian project.
ResourcePrime holds a Central African entity in Cameroon, operates under the same OHADA legal framework in both countries, and transacts in a single currency across the corridor — no conversion, no cross-border FX exposure, no customs union boundary. We hold technical capability and inventory at the coastal end and deploy inland.
Chad is not a new market for us. It is the far end of a corridor we already operate on.
Douala → Yaoundé → Ngaoundéré (rail, 1,200km)
Ngaoundéré → Moundou → N’Djamena (road)
Three sectors, one
systems capability.
Power & Energy
Utility and regulator support, generation assets, grid interface, hybrid and off-grid systems, storage integration, and the operating regimes that keep them available.
Extractives
Oil, gas and critical minerals. Site and camp power, pipeline and pumping facilities, fuel displacement and Scope 1 reduction, contractor-standard HSE and local content delivery.
Climate & Environment
Emissions baselining and reduction reporting on displaced generation, environmental and social safeguards on programme-funded work, and export compliance for industrial clients.
Start with what you already own.
If you hold solar assets in Chad, installed, underperforming, or stalled, an audit will tell you what is recoverable and what it costs to recover it. That is the shortest path to generation you have already paid for.
