Gen318 · AI-native performance assurance
The operations brain
for your mini-grid fleet
Gen318 unifies monitoring, dispatch, maintenance, and DARES compliance into one system — predicting failures 14–21 days out and cutting diesel spend 15–30%.
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 grant milestones.
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The DARES operational gap
You won the grant. Now the hard part starts.
Manual processes that worked for 3 sites collapse at 15. Every DARES developer hits the same wall.
$24K per site locked for 12 months
DARES holds back 20% of every grant pending verified performance. 50 sites = $1.2M frozen. One incomplete Odyssey report delays disbursement for months. You need automated compliance, not more spreadsheets.
Your gensets run when they shouldn't
Without dispatch optimization, diesel is 51% of operating expenses. Most operators lose ₦400K–₦800K per month per site to overconsumption they can't measure, let alone fix.
Odyssey reports shouldn't take a week
Pulling data from VRM, SparkMeter, and WhatsApp into Excel. Reformatting for Odyssey. Every month. For every site. This is what your compliance agent should be doing.
Your inverter failed at 2 AM. Again.
By the time your WhatsApp group lights up, you've lost 6 hours of generation and a full day of revenue. A diagnostic system would have flagged the drift two weeks ago.
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.
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.
Automate dispatch, reports, and response.
Diesel dispatch, Odyssey 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 grant milestones.
Protect. Optimize. Predict.
Gen318 turns mini-grid operations from reactive firefighting into managed performance. Here’s how.
Protect your grant money
The Compliance Agent auto-generates Odyssey-ready DARES reports from live telemetry. Tracks milestones, data completeness, and holdback conditions. Your $24K per site holdback gets released on schedule.
Odyssey-format export · DARES milestone tracking · automated data completeness scoring
Cut your diesel bill 15–30%
The Dispatch Agent learns your site’s solar-battery-diesel economics and determines the optimal generation mix hour by hour. It knows when to coast on battery, when to run the genset, and when to curtail. Gets smarter every week.
AI dispatch optimization · demand forecasting · weather-integrated scheduling
Stop missing equipment failures
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
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Live in 72 hours. Smarter every week.
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.
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.
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.
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 every major brand deployed across DARES sites. One platform. Every vendor. No rip-and-replace.
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.
Compliance
Auto-generates Odyssey reports. Tracks holdback conditions.
Weather
NASA POWER irradiance. Harmattan dust adjustment. Storm prep.
Intelligence at every site. Even without internet.
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.
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.
Built on results that already exist.
40% diesel reduction with proprietary AI
Husk Power's in-house AI cut diesel consumption ~40% and helped power a $400M Series E. Gen318 brings that class of intelligence to every operator — not just the few who can build it themselves.
15–30% more value than rule-based control
Independent studies consistently find AI-optimized dispatch captures 15–30% more value than the threshold rules most mini-grids run today — the gap Gen318 closes automatically.
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.
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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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
EditYour DARES sites go live soon. Is your operations stack ready?
We're onboarding the first cohort of DARES developers. 15 slots. Your fleet assessment is free.
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Gen318 is an AI-native operations platform for distributed energy — one system to monitor, dispatch, maintain, and report across every mini-grid site in your fleet.