Modern South African commercial building with a large rooftop solar installation at blue hour

Engineered energy systems

Electrical, solar and automation, done right.

ES Automation installs and certifies the systems your home or business depends on: electrical, solar and automation. Built to SANS standards and designed for South African conditions, including load shedding.

  • COC on every install
  • Ready for load shedding
  • One team, start to finish

SANS 10142-1

Every installation meets the wiring code

COC

A Certificate of Compliance with every job

3 services

Electrical, solar and automation

24/7

Breakdown support for contract clients

What we do

Most projects touch more than one trade. A solar system needs electrical work; a control panel needs both. We handle all of it with one team.

In-house financing now available

You can spread the cost of your solar system over monthly payments. We arrange the finance through a trusted provider, then handle the design, installation and certification ourselves. One project, one team, one monthly payment.

Finance & equipment
Arranged by us
Installation & COC
ES Automation
One monthly payment
You

Why clients choose us

The trades are full of quick quotes and installers who disappear after handover. We set the company up to work differently.

Close-up of a distribution board with neatly routed and colour-coded wiring
  • One team for the whole job

    Electrical, solar and control work handled by the same people. When the work overlaps, there is no arguing between contractors about whose problem it is.

  • Measurements before quotes

    We measure loads, log consumption and survey the site before we price anything. The quote you get is based on numbers.

  • No shortcuts on compliance

    Correct cable sizing, correct protection, tested and certified. We would rather lose a job than cut corners to win it.

  • Automation built in

    Changeovers, level control, monitoring and alerts are part of every system we install, because we started in control engineering.

  • A documented handover

    Labelled boards, circuit schedules, as-built drawings and manuals. Any competent technician can maintain what we install.

Built for load shedding

Outages are part of daily life here. We design every system so the switchover is automatic, the essentials stay on, and you find out from a notification instead of a dark house.

Completed Victron inverter and battery backup system mounted on a wall

Power

Essential circuits stay on through every stage

Control

Changeover and recharge run on their own

Visibility

Alerts and live status on your phone

How a project runs

Every project moves through the same five stages, and you always know which one you are at.

  1. Step 1

    Assess

    Site visit, measurements and a straight conversation about what you need.

  2. Step 2

    Design

    Sizing, equipment selection and a quote broken down line by line.

  3. Step 3

    Install

    Clean workmanship and as little disruption as possible to your home or business.

  4. Step 4

    Certify

    Testing, COC and SSEG registration where required.

  5. Step 5

    Support

    Monitoring, maintenance plans and a phone that gets answered when something trips.

Who we work for

The same standard applies whether the job is a house rewire or a motor control centre. Only the scale changes.

Completed dual-inverter home backup system with wall-mounted batteries

Residential

Homes, townhouses and estates: rewires, DB upgrades, hybrid solar and certificates for property transfer.

  • Full rewires & new builds
  • Hybrid solar & storage
  • Fault finding & repairs
  • COC for transfers
Completed Sunsynk inverter and battery installation at a commercial site

Commercial

Offices, retail, hospitality and warehousing: fit-outs, three-phase reticulation, solar and planned maintenance.

  • Fit-outs & reticulation
  • Grid-tied & hybrid solar
  • Emergency lighting
  • Maintenance contracts
Industrial-scale lithium battery bank installed along a plant room wall

Industrial

Plants, packhouses and pump stations: motor control, PLC systems, panel building and shutdown maintenance.

  • MCCs & control panels
  • PLC & SCADA systems
  • VSDs & soft starters
  • Planned shutdown work

What clients say

“The changeover is so quick we only know the power is off because the streetlights go dark. Neat installation and the paperwork was done the same week.”

Homeowner

8 kW hybrid solar retrofit

“They rewired our warehouse over a weekend and production never stopped. The DB is labelled so clearly my staff can find their way around it.”

Operations manager

Warehouse electrical upgrade

“The system has run for a year without a single callout, and the monthly report tells me exactly what it saved us.”

Facilities manager

60 kW commercial solar

Tell us what you need.

Send a few details and we'll come back with a clear answer: what it takes, what it costs and how long it needs.

Protection and control wiring inside an enclosure, with breakers and colour-coded conductors
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