About IbadanSolarHub
We size solar systems for Nigerian homes and businesses, publish what equipment actually costs in Naira, and connect people with installers we would use ourselves.
What We Do
Nigeria's solar market has a pricing transparency problem and an oversizing problem. Buyers are routinely quoted systems sized on guesswork, and equipment prices vary by hundreds of thousands of Naira between two vendors on the same street.
IbadanSolarHub exists to fix both. We publish a free load calculator that sizes your inverter, battery bank and solar array from your actual appliances, we track what equipment genuinely sells for across Nigerian retailers and markets, and we only refer installers whose work we can inspect.
How Our Sizing Calculator Works
We publish our methodology because a sizing tool you cannot audit is worthless. The calculator uses these rules, applied to the appliances and run hours you enter:
- Daily energy: appliance watts × quantity × hours per day, summed across your load.
- Battery bank: 65% of daily energy is assumed to be carried by the battery (overnight + evening), then divided by 80% depth of discharge with a 20% reserve for lithium — or 50% depth of discharge for tubular lead-acid.
- Solar array: daily energy × 1.25 for system losses, divided by 4.8 peak sun hours — deliberately conservative against Nigeria's 5.0–5.4 average.
- Inverter — two constraints, we take the larger: steady running load plus 30% headroom, and peak motor starting surge against the inverter's surge rating. Motor inrush is the single most common cause of inverters tripping when a pump or air conditioner starts, and most sizing tools ignore it entirely.
- System voltage: 12V up to 1.2kVA, 24V to 3.5kVA, 48V from 5kVA upward — matching standard Nigerian installation practice.
Where Our Price Ranges Come From
Equipment prices are tracked across major Nigerian online retailers and verified distributor networks. Turnkey installation ranges reflect the brackets installers actually quote across our city hubs.
An honest caveat: the Naira moves fast. Treat every figure on this site as a benchmark to sanity-check a quote against, never as a fixed price. Use the calculator to confirm a quote is in the right ballpark — then get three quotes in writing before you commit to anything.
How We Make Money
Being upfront about this matters, because it is the reason you should trust the rest of the page. We earn from:
- Affiliate commissions from retailers and financing partners when you click through and buy or sign up. This costs you nothing extra — you pay the same price either way.
- Digital products — our own sizing spreadsheets and buyer's guides, sold on Selar.
- Installer referrals — partner installers pay us for qualified leads from this site.
We do not accept payment to write a favourable review of a product, and equipment recommendations are based on specification and Nigerian field experience, not commission rates. Read our full affiliate disclosure.
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Questions, Corrections or Partnerships?
If you have spotted an error in our figures, we want to know. Reach us on WhatsApp at +234 802 712 7331.