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[Johannesburg, South Africa, March 24, 2026] The successful launch of the Huawei FusionSolar 9.0 and One-Fits-All 2.0 innovative solutions was held in South Africa yesterday.
Over 300 guests, including power grid companies, developers, partners, owners, consulting firms, investment and financing institutions, industry associations, and organizations from various countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa, attended the event to participate in this game changing industry gathering.
The event featured in-depth insights from Stellenbosch University, Absa Bank, as well as partners Green Wave and Zutari (TA) on the latest insights and trends shaping the renewable energy industry. The event also focused on the development prospects and innovative practices of utility-scale ground photovoltaic (PV) + energy storage solution (ESS) plants and Commercial & Indiustrial (C&I) PV+ESS systems in Africa.
Of the solutions launched, a significant new product order signing ceremony was held at the event, resulting in cooperation agreements for multiple key projects, and collectively promoting regional energy transition and sustainable development.
Launch Ceremony of the Sub-Saharan Africa Innovation InitiativeNew Ecosystem Strategy + New Solutions: Empowering Regional Energy Upgrades
In his welcome speech, Mr. James Tang, President of Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa, stated that in 2026, Huawei will fully promote its new ecosystem strategy, collaborating with six major categories of partners—government/grid companies, consulting TA’s, sales partners, solution and service providers, investment and financing entities, and industry partners; to jointly build a Digital Power Partner network spanning over 1,000 partners. This initiative aims to deepen Huawei's presence in Africa's new energy market, drive cross-industry integration, scenario convergence, and diversified business models through technological innovation and commercial implementation.
Mr. James Tang, President of Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa Mr. Jianli Li, Vice President of Huawei Digital Power's Global Utility Smart PV business, systematically explained the company's innovative achievements and global practices in the field of smart PV and energy storage, focusing on three key directions. First, grid-forming technology: from grid-forming energy storage to grid-forming PV and energy storage, Huawei has consistently led the way in this technology, advancing from initial exploration and validation to large-scale application. Second, digital technology: through AI integration, Huawei has achieved cost reduction and efficiency improvement throughout the lifecycle of renewable power plants. Third, safety and high quality, which are the cornerstones of the healthy development and advancement of the PV industry. Huawei has always placed this at a strategic priority, ensuring safety and high quality across the entire product lifecycle through organizational and process safeguards, as well as technological innovation.
Mr. Jianli Li, Vice President of Huawei Digital Power Global Utility Smart PV Business
At the launch event, Muhammed Seedat, Senior Solution Architect of Huawei Digital Power South Africa, analytically introduced the new generation of FusionSolar 9.0 Smart PV Utility Smart PV Solutions, and the One-Fits-All 2.0 Smart PV+ESS Solution for commercial and industrial applications.
Huawei's FusionSolar 9.0 Power Plant Solution achieves multiple "industry firsts" through technological innovation: the first 1000Vac PV system, the first smart string inverter for grid forming, the first MBUS 3.0 dual-channel electronic carrier communication, and more.
These innovations deliver four core values to customers: superior investment returns, enhanced grid performance, intelligent operation and maintenance (O&M), and class leading safety and reliability. The flagship product, the SUN2000-506KTL Smart String Inverter (domestic model: SUN2000-460KTL), has become the industry's first 500kW+ string inverter to achieve large-scale commercial deployment, garnering widespread attention.
Huawei's One-Fits-All 2.0 PV+ESS+Charger solution for commercial and industrial (C&I) applications has achieved comprehensive breakthroughs in three key dimensions: safety and reliability, quality assurance, and return on investment. This solution effectively simplifies installation and operation processes, avoids hidden costs, and reduces the cost per kilowatt-hour while enhancing lifecycle returns through superior performance, thereby accelerating the transition to clean energy for all. The flagship product, the LUNA2000-241/215 series of hybrid air and liquid intelligent cooling C&I ESS, has passed the industry's first large-scale combustion test for C&I energy storage based on the latest UL9540A:2025 standard, demonstrating safety and reliability, and providing high-quality energy assurance for industry users.
Mr. Muhammed Seedat, Senior Solution Architect for Huawei Digital Power South Africa
Sub-Saharan African Partners Discuss Transformation, Huawei's PV+ESS Solution Gains Widespread Recognition
Dr. Fred Mwaniki, a senior researcher and lecturer at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, pointed out that grid-forming technology holds strategic significance for power grid stability in Africa. As traditional synchronous generator units gradually phase out, new energy sources represented by PV must take on the core responsibility of stabilizing the grid, thereby transforming grid support into a power trading service with clear market value. In this context, quantitative assessment of system strength and proactive design of grid-forming capabilities have become critical considerations in the planning of inverters and energy storage systems. Empirical tests conducted in South Africa have demonstrated that grid-forming technology offers significant advantages in frequency stability, voltage support, and harmonic suppression, providing crucial support for power grids with high penetration of renewable energy.
Dr. Fred Mwaniki, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Ms. Shirley Webber, Managing Executive and Sector Head for Resources & Energy at Absa Bank in South Africa, stated that South Africa is at a critical window for energy transition. To achieve the national target of reaching an installed power generation capacity of 83 GW by 2030, South Africa needs to add approximately 30 GW of renewable energy capacity, which is expected to drive around R750 billion in investment. Webber further pointed out that to gain an advantage in this transition process, four core competencies are essential: a keen insight into changes in the energy market, innovative technologies to advance carbon reduction goals, sufficient financial strength, and a stable and reliable ecosystem of partners.
Ms. Shirley Webber, Managing Executive and Sector Head for Resources & Energy at Absa Bank
Mr. Heskin Mzungu, the Customer Director of Zutari, a leading TA company, systematically elaborated on Zutari's positioning and vision as a top-tier TA company. Drawing on Zutari's practical experience from multiple challenging projects in Southern Africa, he showcased the large-scale application of string inverters and the research achievements in grid-forming technology. For instance, a 100 MW string inverter PV power plant at a mine in South Africa is expected to help the customer save approximately R 2.5 billion in electricity costs over 15 years. In another project under the risk mitigation IPP procurement program (RMIPPPP) framework, a solar-plus-storage project was deployed with Huawei independently installing the Power Conversion System (PCS), which features black start and grid-forming capabilities, effectively enhancing the resilience of the regional power grid.
Zutari's technical team recently visited China in March 2026, and partnered with Huawei to complete key technical testing and validation of the first grid-forming inverter, the 506KTL. The results clearly demonstrated that compared to traditional central inverters, grid-forming string inverters exhibit superior active power output and grid support capabilities in scenarios such as high-voltage ride-through (HVRT). The customer expressed a commitment to further enhance joint innovation and cooperation with Huawei in grid-forming solar-plus-storage solutions, aiming to accelerate the implementation of grid-forming technology and green transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr. Heskin Mzungu, Customer Director at Zutari
Mr. Arjan Bijker, CTO of EPC partner Green Wave, reviewed the in-depth collaboration journey with Huawei. He mentioned that since Green Wave entered the C&I PV market in 2015, the company has rapidly built comprehensive capabilities across various business application scenarios, such as peak-valley arbitrage in energy storage systems and demand management, through collaborative innovation with Huawei.
Successful project cases in South Africa's large-scale retail and manufacturing industries have fully validated the core value created by the partnership for customers, achieving a measured system round-trip efficiency of up to 92.2%, a C2C-level active safety mechanism, and simplified operation and maintenance. Additionally, leveraging Huawei's robust local service capabilities, the grid connection time for these projects can be reduced by more than 30% compared to traditional solutions.
Mr. Arjan Bijker, Green Wave CTO
New product orders secured, accelerating the scale-up of energy transition
At the event, several partners, including ABC Solar, Solarworld, MSA, Kathea from South Africa, and PPAG from Ghana, signed Huawei's order agreements. In the first quarter of this year alone, the orders for C&I energy storage solutions exceeded 400 MWh. This success, where new products quickly achieved high sales volumes, fully demonstrates the widespread recognition of Huawei's PV+ESS solutions in the regional market and marks a deeper level of cooperation between Huawei and these partners.
Huawei's FusionSolar 9.0 and One-Fits-All 2.0 solutions are driving the energy transition in Sub-Saharan Africa into a new phase. Leveraging long-term technological innovation, high-quality solutions, and a new ecosystem of partners across the region, Huawei's PV+ESS solutions are accelerating their large-scale deployment in Africa. Based on this new ecosystem cooperation model, Huawei will continue to work with partners to build a sustainable regional energy cooperation system, providing strong support for the implementation of future projects and helping the region achieve stable operations and clean energy transition goals.
ABC Solar Order Ceremony
Solarworld Order Ceremony
MSA Order Ceremony
Kathea Energy Order Ceremony
PPAG Order Ceremony
[Johannesburg, South Africa, March 24, 2026] The successful launch of the Huawei FusionSolar 9.0 and One-Fits-All 2.0 innovative solutions was held in South Africa yesterday.
Over 300 guests, including power grid companies, developers, partners, owners, consulting firms, investment and financing institutions, industry associations, and organizations from various countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa, attended the event to participate in this game changing industry gathering.
The event featured in-depth insights from Stellenbosch University, Absa Bank, as well as partners Green Wave and Zutari (TA) on the latest insights and trends shaping the renewable energy industry. The event also focused on the development prospects and innovative practices of utility-scale ground photovoltaic (PV) + energy storage solution (ESS) plants and Commercial & Indiustrial (C&I) PV+ESS systems in Africa.
Of the solutions launched, a significant new product order signing ceremony was held at the event, resulting in cooperation agreements for multiple key projects, and collectively promoting regional energy transition and sustainable development.
Launch Ceremony of the Sub-Saharan Africa Innovation InitiativeNew Ecosystem Strategy + New Solutions: Empowering Regional Energy Upgrades
In his welcome speech, Mr. James Tang, President of Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa, stated that in 2026, Huawei will fully promote its new ecosystem strategy, collaborating with six major categories of partners—government/grid companies, consulting TA’s, sales partners, solution and service providers, investment and financing entities, and industry partners; to jointly build a Digital Power Partner network spanning over 1,000 partners. This initiative aims to deepen Huawei's presence in Africa's new energy market, drive cross-industry integration, scenario convergence, and diversified business models through technological innovation and commercial implementation.
Mr. James Tang, President of Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa Mr. Jianli Li, Vice President of Huawei Digital Power's Global Utility Smart PV business, systematically explained the company's innovative achievements and global practices in the field of smart PV and energy storage, focusing on three key directions. First, grid-forming technology: from grid-forming energy storage to grid-forming PV and energy storage, Huawei has consistently led the way in this technology, advancing from initial exploration and validation to large-scale application. Second, digital technology: through AI integration, Huawei has achieved cost reduction and efficiency improvement throughout the lifecycle of renewable power plants. Third, safety and high quality, which are the cornerstones of the healthy development and advancement of the PV industry. Huawei has always placed this at a strategic priority, ensuring safety and high quality across the entire product lifecycle through organizational and process safeguards, as well as technological innovation.
Mr. Jianli Li, Vice President of Huawei Digital Power Global Utility Smart PV Business
At the launch event, Muhammed Seedat, Senior Solution Architect of Huawei Digital Power South Africa, analytically introduced the new generation of FusionSolar 9.0 Smart PV Utility Smart PV Solutions, and the One-Fits-All 2.0 Smart PV+ESS Solution for commercial and industrial applications.
Huawei's FusionSolar 9.0 Power Plant Solution achieves multiple "industry firsts" through technological innovation: the first 1000Vac PV system, the first smart string inverter for grid forming, the first MBUS 3.0 dual-channel electronic carrier communication, and more.
These innovations deliver four core values to customers: superior investment returns, enhanced grid performance, intelligent operation and maintenance (O&M), and class leading safety and reliability. The flagship product, the SUN2000-506KTL Smart String Inverter (domestic model: SUN2000-460KTL), has become the industry's first 500kW+ string inverter to achieve large-scale commercial deployment, garnering widespread attention.
Huawei's One-Fits-All 2.0 PV+ESS+Charger solution for commercial and industrial (C&I) applications has achieved comprehensive breakthroughs in three key dimensions: safety and reliability, quality assurance, and return on investment. This solution effectively simplifies installation and operation processes, avoids hidden costs, and reduces the cost per kilowatt-hour while enhancing lifecycle returns through superior performance, thereby accelerating the transition to clean energy for all. The flagship product, the LUNA2000-241/215 series of hybrid air and liquid intelligent cooling C&I ESS, has passed the industry's first large-scale combustion test for C&I energy storage based on the latest UL9540A:2025 standard, demonstrating safety and reliability, and providing high-quality energy assurance for industry users.
Mr. Muhammed Seedat, Senior Solution Architect for Huawei Digital Power South Africa
Sub-Saharan African Partners Discuss Transformation, Huawei's PV+ESS Solution Gains Widespread Recognition
Dr. Fred Mwaniki, a senior researcher and lecturer at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, pointed out that grid-forming technology holds strategic significance for power grid stability in Africa. As traditional synchronous generator units gradually phase out, new energy sources represented by PV must take on the core responsibility of stabilizing the grid, thereby transforming grid support into a power trading service with clear market value. In this context, quantitative assessment of system strength and proactive design of grid-forming capabilities have become critical considerations in the planning of inverters and energy storage systems. Empirical tests conducted in South Africa have demonstrated that grid-forming technology offers significant advantages in frequency stability, voltage support, and harmonic suppression, providing crucial support for power grids with high penetration of renewable energy.
Dr. Fred Mwaniki, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Ms. Shirley Webber, Managing Executive and Sector Head for Resources & Energy at Absa Bank in South Africa, stated that South Africa is at a critical window for energy transition. To achieve the national target of reaching an installed power generation capacity of 83 GW by 2030, South Africa needs to add approximately 30 GW of renewable energy capacity, which is expected to drive around R750 billion in investment. Webber further pointed out that to gain an advantage in this transition process, four core competencies are essential: a keen insight into changes in the energy market, innovative technologies to advance carbon reduction goals, sufficient financial strength, and a stable and reliable ecosystem of partners.
Ms. Shirley Webber, Managing Executive and Sector Head for Resources & Energy at Absa Bank
Mr. Heskin Mzungu, the Customer Director of Zutari, a leading TA company, systematically elaborated on Zutari's positioning and vision as a top-tier TA company. Drawing on Zutari's practical experience from multiple challenging projects in Southern Africa, he showcased the large-scale application of string inverters and the research achievements in grid-forming technology. For instance, a 100 MW string inverter PV power plant at a mine in South Africa is expected to help the customer save approximately R 2.5 billion in electricity costs over 15 years. In another project under the risk mitigation IPP procurement program (RMIPPPP) framework, a solar-plus-storage project was deployed with Huawei independently installing the Power Conversion System (PCS), which features black start and grid-forming capabilities, effectively enhancing the resilience of the regional power grid.
Zutari's technical team recently visited China in March 2026, and partnered with Huawei to complete key technical testing and validation of the first grid-forming inverter, the 506KTL. The results clearly demonstrated that compared to traditional central inverters, grid-forming string inverters exhibit superior active power output and grid support capabilities in scenarios such as high-voltage ride-through (HVRT). The customer expressed a commitment to further enhance joint innovation and cooperation with Huawei in grid-forming solar-plus-storage solutions, aiming to accelerate the implementation of grid-forming technology and green transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr. Heskin Mzungu, Customer Director at Zutari
Mr. Arjan Bijker, CTO of EPC partner Green Wave, reviewed the in-depth collaboration journey with Huawei. He mentioned that since Green Wave entered the C&I PV market in 2015, the company has rapidly built comprehensive capabilities across various business application scenarios, such as peak-valley arbitrage in energy storage systems and demand management, through collaborative innovation with Huawei.
Successful project cases in South Africa's large-scale retail and manufacturing industries have fully validated the core value created by the partnership for customers, achieving a measured system round-trip efficiency of up to 92.2%, a C2C-level active safety mechanism, and simplified operation and maintenance. Additionally, leveraging Huawei's robust local service capabilities, the grid connection time for these projects can be reduced by more than 30% compared to traditional solutions.
Mr. Arjan Bijker, Green Wave CTO
New product orders secured, accelerating the scale-up of energy transition
At the event, several partners, including ABC Solar, Solarworld, MSA, Kathea from South Africa, and PPAG from Ghana, signed Huawei's order agreements. In the first quarter of this year alone, the orders for C&I energy storage solutions exceeded 400 MWh. This success, where new products quickly achieved high sales volumes, fully demonstrates the widespread recognition of Huawei's PV+ESS solutions in the regional market and marks a deeper level of cooperation between Huawei and these partners.
Huawei's FusionSolar 9.0 and One-Fits-All 2.0 solutions are driving the energy transition in Sub-Saharan Africa into a new phase. Leveraging long-term technological innovation, high-quality solutions, and a new ecosystem of partners across the region, Huawei's PV+ESS solutions are accelerating their large-scale deployment in Africa. Based on this new ecosystem cooperation model, Huawei will continue to work with partners to build a sustainable regional energy cooperation system, providing strong support for the implementation of future projects and helping the region achieve stable operations and clean energy transition goals.
ABC Solar Order Ceremony
Solarworld Order Ceremony
MSA Order Ceremony
Kathea Energy Order Ceremony
PPAG Order Ceremony
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