Hybrid systems use smart inverters to combine several inputs — solar, batteries, the grid and a generator — and deliver the best available output at any moment. Off-grid systems do the same without a grid connection at all.
We have built these systems where the grid is unreliable or absent: a 1.5 MW village supply in Lebanon, an off-grid greenhouse in Al Qaa, and a supermarket in Nairobi that keeps running during outages.
