Gen318 · AI-native performance assurance

The operations brain for distributed energy fleets

From mini-grids to C&I solar portfolios, Gen318 unifies monitoring, dispatch, maintenance, and performance reporting — targeting 14–21 days of failure warning and measuring diesel savings against an approved baseline for every site.

Built for mini-grids, commercial solar portfolios, and hybrid C&I plants
DARES, C&I, and capital-review evidence from the same operating record
Post-close visibility for operators, portfolio teams, and capital providers

From scattered tools and blind operations.

Every site speaks a different dashboard — Victron in one tab, SparkMeter in another, fuel in a spreadsheet, faults in WhatsApp. Nothing connects, so problems surface only after they've cost you generation, diesel, and performance commitments.

SITES
Solar • Battery • Diesel
OPERATORS
Field • Ops • Finance
AGENTS
Monitor • Dispatch • Comply
PER SITE
fuel baseline
starts here
VRM tabsSpreadsheetsWhatsAppFuel logsSite visitsManual reportsPhone calls
Blind spots
Manual handoffs
Diesel waste
Missed faults
Victron VRM
SparkMeter
Huawei
Growatt
Odyssey
Diesel logs
WhatsApp
Spreadsheets
The distributed-energy operations gap

The assets are live. Now performance decides the return.

Manual processes that worked for three sites collapse at fifteen. Mini-grid developers, solar ESCOs, and C&I energy teams hit the same wall.

04Failure modes
Across four operating domains
PerformanceUnproven

Performance is only real when you can prove it

DARES developers need Odyssey-ready evidence. C&I operators need uptime, yield and baseline-adjusted diesel-savings reports. Both need records generated from live telemetry, not reconstructed in spreadsheets.

FuelNo baseline

You cannot optimize fuel you have not baselined

Diesel is often the largest controllable cost in a hybrid fleet, and the share differs at every site. Gen318 reconciles meter, genset and fuel-log history into an approved baseline before measuring any saving.

ReportingManual rebuild

Portfolio reports shouldn't start from scratch

Inverter portals, meters, fuel logs, WhatsApp — pulled into Excel, then rebuilt for Odyssey, an SLA, a board, a lender. Every period, every site. Gen318 keeps one evidence trail behind each review.

Uptime6 hrs lost

Your inverter failed at 2 AM. Again.

By the time your WhatsApp group lights up, you've lost 6 hours of generation and a day of revenue. A diagnostic system would have flagged the drift two weeks ago.

Runs on what you already own
Victron
VRM API · Modbus
SparkMeter
Koios metering
FusionSolar
Huawei inverters
Growatt
Hybrid inverters
Odyssey
DARES export
Modbus
Gensets · BMS · any device
The hard parts

Handled.

Four things break distributed-energy operations in the field. Each one is designed out of the platform, not worked around in the process.

  • Offline-first edge so a link that drops for a month never becomes a gap in the record

  • One metric vocabulary so a fleet running five inverter brands reports as one fleet

  • Tamper-evident records so a lender reads the number the meter actually measured

  • Physics-first prediction so a new site is covered on day one, before it has any history

Assurance is an engineering property, not a reporting exercise.

Fleet record42 days
KANO-0499.8%
SOKOTO-0198.2%
KADUNA-0299.9%
Link down 6d · backfilled
JIGAWA-0799.5%
BAUCHI-0399.1%
NIGER-0599.7%
PLATEAU-0298.9%
KEBBI-0699.6%
GOMBE-0599.3%
YOBE-0199.4%
KATSINA-0999.7%
ZAMFARA-0499.2%
ADAMAWA-0398.7%
BENUE-0899.9%
NASARAWA-0699.8%
+9 more
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Platform scope

Your entire fleet, running as one system.

Gen318 spans the full lifecycle of every site — from the power it generates in the field, to the dispatch calls and compliance reports that keep it profitable.

01 · Fleet Monitoring

See your whole fleet, live.

Telemetry, alerts, diagnostics, and reports — every site streamed into one live view, on 2G or fully offline.

Victron, SparkMeter, Huawei, Growatt, and your gensets all speak one language, so your team spots problems before they cost generation.

FLEET MONITORING
one live view across every site
OPERATOR DASHBOARD
Web • Mobile • PWA
ANOMALY DETECTION
Alerts & Diagnostics
EDGE TELEMETRY
On-site • Offline-ready
WEATHER & FORECAST
Irradiance • Demand
GEN318 · UNIFIED FLEET
FLEET OPERATIONS
coordinate field-to-finance execution
DISPATCH OPTIMIZATION
Solar • Battery • Genset
WORK ORDERS
Triage & Technician
PERFORMANCE REPORTING
Odyssey • Client SLA
DEMAND FORECASTING
Load & Weather
GEN318 · UNIFIED FLEET
02 · Fleet Operations

Automate dispatch, reports, and response.

Diesel dispatch, Odyssey and client performance reports, fault triage, technician work orders — the repetitive, high-stakes work that drains your team's hours and your fuel budget.

Gen318 coordinates decisions, telemetry, and field actions across every tool, so issues resolve before they cost generation or performance milestones.

One platform. Three outcomes.

Protect. Optimize. Predict.

Gen318 turns distributed-energy operations from reactive firefighting into managed, provable performance. Here’s how.

PROTECT

Prove performance automatically

2–5 days → under 1 hour

The reporting agent turns live telemetry into Odyssey-ready DARES reports or C&I client uptime reports. It tracks completeness, milestones, and the evidence behind every performance claim.

Odyssey-format export · C&I uptime reports · automated data completeness scoring

OPTIMIZE

Cut diesel against your own baseline

Measured site by site

The Dispatch Agent learns each site’s solar-battery-diesel economics and recommends the optimal generation mix hour by hour. Savings are reported against the site's approved fuel and runtime baseline, adjusted for material operating-condition changes.

AI dispatch optimization · demand forecasting · weather-integrated scheduling

PREDICT

Stop missing equipment failures

Target: 14–21 day warning

Battery Health and Inverter Diagnostics agents detect degradation patterns weeks before failure. Tropical climate models account for Harmattan dust, humidity cycles, and temperature extremes that no other platform understands.

Battery degradation tracking · 12 inverter fault types · tropical climate models

Ready to see what Gen318 finds in your fleet?

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The numbers that matter to your operation.

80 / 20
DARES claim milestones
Per site
Approved diesel baseline
14–21 days
Target warning window
< 1 hr
Compliance report generation
30+ days
Autonomous offline operation
5 min
Morning fleet check (was 45)

Live in 72 hours. Smarter every week.

01

Connect

Plug into your existing hardware

Victron, Huawei, Growatt inverters. SparkMeter meters. Diesel gensets. An edge node deploys at each site and starts collecting data within hours. Even on 2G. Even offline.

02

Learn

Your fleet’s baseline, built automatically

Within 72 hours, AI agents establish normal performance ranges for your equipment, your climate zone, and your load patterns. No configuration required.

03

Predict

Spot what’s drifting before it breaks

Inverter efficiency dropping 3% over two weeks? Battery cells diverging? Diesel consumption creeping up? Flagged, explained, and prioritized.

04

Act

Dispatch optimized. Compliance automated.

The platform determines the optimal generation mix, generates Odyssey reports, and surfaces only the exceptions that need your attention. You manage the fleet, not the data.

Works with your hardware. All of it.

Gen318 connects to the inverter, meter, battery, and genset brands already deployed across mini-grid and C&I solar fleets. One platform. Every vendor. No rip-and-replace.

Victron Energy
Inverters, BMV, MPPT via VRM API + Modbus
SparkMeter
Smart metering & billing via Koios API
Huawei FusionSolar
String inverters & monitoring
Growatt ShineServer
Hybrid inverters
Odyssey
DARES compliance report export
Generic Modbus
Diesel gensets, BMS, any Modbus device
Under the hood

Six specialized agents. One fleet brain.

Gen318 isn't a dashboard with AI bolted on. Intelligence is the platform — six agents that coordinate, learn, and act across every site in your fleet.

Battery Health

Tracks degradation across chemistries. Predicts remaining useful life.

Inverter Diagnostics

Classifies 12 fault types from electrical signatures. Tropical climate models.

Demand Forecast

Learns market days, Ramadan, harvest seasons, school terms.

Dispatch Optimization

Determines when to run gensets, coast on battery, or curtail.

Performance Reporting

Generates Odyssey or C&I uptime reports from the same evidence trail.

Weather

NASA POWER irradiance. Harmattan dust adjustment. Storm prep.

Intelligence at every site. Even without internet.

30+ days
autonomy
< 50ms
inference
4-tier
priority sync

Edge AI nodes run on-device inference locally — detecting anomalies, classifying faults, and queuing dispatch decisions at the site. On 2G or fully offline. When connectivity returns, data syncs seamlessly.

Compound learning

Every site makes the fleet smarter.

Site 50 is smarter on day one than Site 1 was after six months. Gen318's continuous learning pipeline turns every operational event into training data. The more sites you connect, the better every site performs.

The evidence

Proof begins with what can be measured.

MEASUREMENT · PER SITE

Savings start with an approved baseline

Gen318 establishes each site's fuel, genset-runtime, load, irradiance, and availability record before a pilot claims savings. Sector averages never substitute for the site's own evidence.

REPORTING · ADJUSTED

Before and after, on the same basis

Reporting-period diesel use is compared with the approved baseline and adjusted for material changes in load, weather, and asset availability. The result is measured value, not transferred benchmark math.

DARES · BY DESIGN

Built for the program. Not adapted for it.

The holdback structure, the Odyssey reporting format, the performance verification requirements — Gen318 was designed around the DARES compliance architecture from day one, not ported to it.

Africa is building 1,350 mini-grids on spreadsheets and WhatsApp. The hardware is funded — the operating layer isn't. Gen318 is that layer, so every site runs leaner and every grant clears on time.
Founding thesis · Gen318
Built by engineers who know the infrastructure
Read the full thesis →
Control room

Your team runs the whole fleet.

One place to run every site, agent, and report across your fleet. Field, operations, and finance — same data, same cadence. No tickets, no vendor lock-in.

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Gen318 / Fleet

Fleet Dashboard

Start with your highest-risk sites, then grow into a single operating view across solar, battery, and diesel — every site, every signal, one cadence.

Operational domains

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Built for audit
Tenant-isolated
Append-only audit log
Device-cert identity
30-day offline
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