Home › Newsroom › Country Guides
Country Guides · Week 43 of 52

Beyond Africa: solar cold chain for the Caribbean and South America

Where the Frontières Bay model travels after Africa — island fisheries, produce exporters and resorts in the Caribbean and coastal South America — and how to enquire.

Frontières Bay is built for anywhere the grid falls short. After Africa, the same solar plus cold storage platform fits island fisheries, produce exporters and resorts across the Caribbean and coastal South America.

Key facts

  • Island grids are expensive and fragile; diesel is imported at premium prices.
  • Fisheries, resorts and produce exporters have the same load profile as our African customers.
  • Hurricane-rated mounting and coastal corrosion build are specified for island sites.
  • Enquiries welcome now; projects scheduled after Phase 1 in Africa.

Why islands

Imported diesel, salt air and fragile grids make island cold storage some of the most expensive in the world to run. Solar with a long-life battery and a corrosion-rated build is the obvious answer; the economics are usually better than in mainland Africa.

What travels

The containerised cold store, the coastal build, the battery specification and the service-contract model. What changes is the mounting — rated for hurricane wind loads — and the logistics partner.

How to enquire

Request an audit; we run it remotely and place the project in the pipeline. Resorts and exporters earning dollars qualify for a service contract from a single site.

Island or coastal site outside Africa? Tell us about it.

Talk to Frontières Bay

Frequently asked

Do you have partners in the Caribbean yet?

Not yet — early enquiries help us select the first island partner.

What about hurricanes?

Mounting is engineered to local wind codes and arrays are insured; batteries sit in rated enclosures.

Free energy auditSavings calculator