Peak Power partnered with Sundrops Energy Pvt. Ltd. to design and build this 100 kWp hybrid solar microgrid for Kankasundari, in Jumla district, Karnali Province — a remote area where the existing grid connection is so poor and unreliable that it’s effectively unusable for day-to-day power needs.
The system combines AC-coupled and DC-coupled solar generation on a single hybrid platform. Two 50kW SMA Core1 Tripower inverters handle the bulk of the array on the AC side, while two Victron RS450 smart solar chargers add a further 20kW of DC-coupled PV directly onto the battery bus. Power is delivered through a three-phase grid-forming stack of six 15kVA Victron Quattro inverters, backed by a 96-cell 2V OPzV VRLA tubular gel battery bank for storage. The whole system is monitored and controlled through a Victron Cerbo GX with a Touch 50 display, alongside additional system control integrations built by Peak Power.
Power reaches the community over 3.86 kilometres of three-phase transmission line and a further 2.8 kilometres of single-phase line, connecting around 295 homes and 23 local businesses, along with the village clinic and the wider village area.
For a village where grid power exists on paper but is too poor in practice to rely on, this microgrid gives Kankasundari its first genuinely usable, clean electricity supply.