Energy · Wheeling

Sign more offtake, off market. South Africa's commercial buildings buy roughly R100bn of grid power a year, and we know which owners are worth your call.

The big funds are a bidding war. The layer below them is not: owner-occupier landlords with real load, in wheeling-approved municipalities, invisible from a boardroom and missing from every bought list. We hold South Africa's commercial property data, we filter it hard, and we hand your team small, exclusive batches of offtaker leads with the dead ends already removed.

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A de-identified map of a target industrial area with apex-owner portfolios marked as points and polygons (the off-market demand visual). Use a real, de-identified data export, not a stock photo.
The problem

Where wheeling origination leaks.

Wheeled energy is sold on long cycles by senior people. The expensive part is not the deals you close; it is the months spent on accounts everyone else is chasing, or that were never going to sign.

Red-ocean shortlists

Everyone originates against the same big property funds. Advised, auctioned and margin-squeezed: a bidding war before you have started.

The invisible layer

Owner-occupier landlords below the fund radar: real load, and one entity that owns the building and signs the deal. Thousands of them, and no list to buy.

Municipal dead ends

Assets in the wrong municipality kill deals late that data would have killed on day one.

Origination drag

Manual research, portfolio roll-ups by hand, decision-makers hunted one profile at a time. Senior time spent below its pay grade.

The approach

Precision pays. Off market wins.

High contract values and long cycles reward filtering before spending. We work from wheeling-approved geographies upwards, roll every property up to its apex owner (the ultimate owner across its whole portfolio), and filter at the property, the business and the people level. You get a small, exclusive batch, with the non-starters already gone.

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candidates found
Many candidates in, a few qualified, exclusive offtaker leads out
A few
qualified, exclusive offtaker leads
The dashed lines are filters: most candidates are removed there, before they cost you anything.

Our value is in the leads we do not give you. No list of wheeling-ready offtakers exists; every lead is built from the ground up, then cut down to the few worth your quarter.

Why us, not a list

A list hands you names. We hand you offtakers worth a meeting.

Bought lists and directories are built for volume. Off-market origination rewards depth: the property, the portfolio, the owner, the demand picture and the person, resolved into one record.

A bought list or directory

Company names and switchboard numbers, no property or demand context
The same file sold to everyone chasing the same market, including your competitors
You still filter, qualify, find the decision-maker and build the materials
Stale the day it is exported

Gmaven

Built from South Africa's commercial property base and rolled up to the apex owner: the buildings, the portfolio, the demand picture and the decision-maker in one record
Exclusive to you for a defined, extendable period
The non-starters filtered out at the property, business and people level before you see them
Account-specific detail and materials prepared, so your originators only originate

With long cycles and senior people, small exclusive volumes make a pipeline easier to run, not harder.

What's in a lead

Rich data on every property, portfolio and decision-maker.

A sample offtaker lead, de-identified. Each one carries the property and portfolio, the offtake picture and the decision-maker context your team needs to open the right door at the right level.
Property & portfolio
TypeIndustrial / factory
GLA28,540 m²
LocationIsando, Ekurhuleni
RelationshipOwner-occupier
Portfolio12 properties, one apex owner
Offtake opportunity
Est. monthly grid power846,300 kWh
Municipality statusWheeling live
On-site solar210 kWp, 6% of roof
Ground-mount / carportNone
SuitabilityHigh
Decision-maker
Owner typePrivate, owner-occupier
Decision levelCEO / MD
Head officeSouth Africa
ReachableYes, POPIA-compliant

Personal contact details are provided to clients under POPIA-compliant terms and are not shown on this page. All values illustrative.

Your deal-making tools

Your leads, live and workable.

The research and admin that blocks deals, done for you: your batch delivered in a live, secure dashboard your team can slice, map and work.

Live lead dashboard

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Screenshot: the high-level view of your batch, with portfolio counts, revenue and lifetime-value estimates.

Apex-owner roll-ups

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Screenshot: the account aggregation view, every property under one owner, one row per conversation.

Slice-and-dice filters

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Screenshot: filtering the batch by owner, province, municipality status, solar install date and business type.

Map view

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Screenshot: the batch on a map, portfolio by portfolio.

POPIA-compliant contacts

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Screenshot: the decision-maker contact sheet, with names, roles, reach details and consent status.

Account door openers

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Screenshot: a customised, account-level presentation generated for outreach.
Why us

Why we can do what others can't.

We are specialists at processing commercial property data at scale, built on years of iteration, and we know how commercial property deals actually happen.

Built from the ground up

No magic list exists for this space. We build every lead, then filter it down to the few that fit.

Exclusive, never bruised

You get exclusive access to your leads for a defined, extendable period. No recycled lists, no shared prospects.

Deep commercial property credibility

Over R3bn in deals supported, top property companies as clients, and the Industrial Development Corporation innovation grant behind the methods.

Responsibly sourced

POPIA compliant, with a clean, conflict-free model and a solid framework for prospect engagement.

Proven in market

One proof of concept. R2.1bn a year of offtake identified.

A recent engagement for a leading South African wheeling provider, de-identified. Thirty-three target properties, chosen from four industrial areas, rolled up to their apex owners and their full portfolios.
421
properties in the apex portfolios, from 33 targets
R2.1bn
estimated annual revenues identified
R1.4bn
conservative customer lifetime value
78%
of selected prospects were owner-occupiers

Solar penetration across those portfolios sat at just 16%, so the load is still on the grid. Revenue and lifetime-value figures are the engagement's own conservative estimates, on stated assumptions.

The prize

A R100bn-a-year market, mapped building by building.

We estimate the opportunity for wheeling clean energy to South African commercial property at approximately R100 billion a year. Not modelled from averages: built up from the country's commercial building stock, property by property.

~R100bn
a year: the commercial wheeling opportunity (we estimate)
64,183
commercial properties mapped
R2.2tn
of commercial property value covered
8.6M m²
of commercial roof processed for solar

Every lead traces back to a real, mapped property and its owner. That is the difference between a batch that converts and one that wastes your quarter.

The market

How we get to R100bn a year.

South African electricity users pay roughly R345 billion a year for grid power: Eskom's FY2025 revenue of R340.9 billion, less exports of about R10 billion, plus the R15 to R20 billion margin municipalities earn on resale (Eskom results, September 2025; StatsSA Financial Census of Municipalities). We estimate the commercial property sector, meaning offices, retail centres and rentable industrial property, and excluding mines, smelters and other heavy single-purpose plants, consumes 50 to 60 TWh of that a year, worth some R115 to R170 billion at prevailing tariffs.

Allowing for continued rooftop solar self-consumption (a further roughly 6 TWh as the remaining economic roof space is built out), and pricing wheeled energy at a 20% discount to retail tariffs, the total addressable market for wheeling clean energy to commercial property is R80 to R120 billion a year, centred on R100 billion.

Sitting on generation and looking for the demand map? Same data. Talk to us.

Sign more offtake. Win with data.

Tell us the geographies, load sizes and buyer types you are after, and we will build the leads, filtered down to the ones worth chasing.