Energy & fuel trading platform · Zambia → SADC

Turn kilowatt-hours
into kwacha.

Novea is the software between energy and its buyers. It moves three numbers: the cash you collect, the energy you lose, and what it costs to serve a connection. Every module in the platform exists to move one of them — across a power utility and a fuel business alike.

20–35%
Non-technical loss in weaker SADC grids
Zambian adults who pay by mobile money
Power & wheeling agreements ERB approved in 2025
1
Platform — meter reading to cash in the bank
Built for the ground truth

Most energy software assumes a postpaid, banked, always-on world. Zambia isn’t one.

Novea started from the constraints, not around them — so the awkward realities are first-class features, not integrations bolted on later.

Prepaid-first Buy power before you use it Wallets, STS-ready token vending, low-balance alerts. The dominant model, native — not an afterthought.
Mobile money The account is a phone number DPO, MTN, Airtel and Zamtel. Pay by handset, get a token back, instantly — no bank required.
Feature phones USSD, no app, no data Check a balance, buy a token or log a fault from any handset. The customer is resolved from the MSISDN.
Load-shedding Scheduled darkness, planned for Zones, windows and pre-shed alerts — the platform knows when the grid goes down and tells people first.
Solar + diesel Hybrid generation, metered Interval telemetry across arrays, batteries and generators, with the ESG maths done automatically.
The Copperbelt Mines, malls and filling stations Power and fuel, grid and forecourt, C&I and residential — one tenant-isolated platform for every kind of energy supply.
Two businesses, one spine

Which side of the meter are you on?

Electricity and downstream fuel are different operations with different buyers — so each gets its own platform, in depth. They share one customer base, one ledger and one set of controls underneath.

Electricity

Meter to mobile money

The whole commercial spine of a power utility, mini-grid or C&I supplier — built prepaid-first, for the grid Zambia actually has.

  • Prepaid vending, wallets and STS-ready tokens
  • Tariffs as configuration — ToU, stepped, index-linked
  • USSD self-service on any handset
  • Load-shedding zones, windows and pre-shed alerts
  • Revenue protection — tamper and non-technical loss
See the electricity platform → Fuel & OMC

Depot to forecourt

Wholesale lifting and forecourt retail on the same books — because the hard part isn’t pumping litres, it’s knowing your margin to the tambala.

  • Wholesale, bulk contracts and credit terms
  • Tank dips, deliveries and wet-stock reconciliation
  • Shift reconciliation — pump meters against the till
  • Stock loss, evaporation and shrinkage, flagged
  • OMC licences, marketing bonds and ERB returns
See the fuel platform →
Under the hood

The parts you only notice when they fail — engineered so they don’t.

Financial software earns trust by being boring in exactly the right places. Novea is built for the money to be right, the tenants to stay separate, and the record to be unforgeable.

Isolated

Multi-tenant by construction

Every business row carries its organisation, and reads are scoped per request. One operator can never see another’s customers — proven by a test that sweeps every endpoint.

Balanced

Append-only double-entry

Invoices, payments and journals are immutable once posted. Nothing is edited in place; corrections are new entries. The trial balance always balances.

Recorded

Immutable audit trail

Who did what, when — write-once, delete-never. Every sensitive action, from a posted invoice to a flipped feature flag, leaves a permanent mark.

Guarded

Roles, MFA & encryption

Deny-by-default RBAC across nine roles, two-step login with backup codes, and field-level encryption for personal data at rest.

Durable

Outbox & retries

Notifications and side-effects go through a transactional outbox — retried with backoff, dead-lettered when they can’t deliver, never silently dropped.

Observed

Metrics, logs & SLOs

Correlation IDs stitch every request together, structured logs and RED metrics, and service-level objectives with a documented rollback path.

Clean energy, counted

The impact story isn’t a slide. It’s a column in the ledger.

Every kilowatt-hour a solar array delivers instead of a diesel generator is measured, converted and reported — so sustainability is an output of the system, not a spreadsheet someone assembles the night before the board meeting.

kWh of diesel generation displaced by every litre saved
kg
CO₂ avoided for each litre of diesel a solar kWh replaces
of generation attributed per site — solar, grid import, export and genset
Auto
renewable-share & carbon reporting, straight into the branded investor pack

// Reference conversion factors, applied on every reading. Real numbers, real sites — quantified continuously, not estimated once a year.

One market today, a region by design

Zambia now. The rest of SADC as data, not a rewrite.

Countries, currencies, regulators, tax and tariff templates are all configuration. Adding a market is seeding reference data and wiring its payment rails — not forking the codebase.

● Zambia — first market SADC — by configuration
Zambia · ZMW DRC Zimbabwe Malawi Mozambique Tanzania Namibia + SAPP cross-border
About us

Zambia-first by design — not by adaptation.

Novea Energies exists to make selling energy in Southern Africa work the way this market actually behaves. We build the commercial spine for both halves of the business — electricity and downstream fuel — so every kilowatt-hour and every litre is metered, priced, billed, collected and accounted for on one platform.

What we do Two verticals, one spine Electricity from meter to mobile money, and fuel from depot to forecourt — sharing one customer base, one ledger and one set of controls, so the group accounts are a single balanced truth.
How we build Constraints first Prepaid wallets, mobile money, USSD on any handset and scheduled load-shedding are not edge cases here — they are the default. The platform was designed around them rather than retrofitted to them.
Where we are Building in Lusaka In active development, Zambia first. Countries, currencies, regulators and tariff templates are held as configuration — so reaching the rest of SADC is seeding data, not forking the codebase.
Novea Energies

The commercial engine for the energy that powers a continent.

From a single prepaid meter in a Lusaka compound to a cross-border wheeling settlement — one platform, one ledger, one source of truth.

Utilities Mini-grid operators C&I energy providers Solar & PAYGo financiers Fuel & OMC
Photography (colour-treated), via Wikimedia Commons: solar array — U.S. Dept. of Energy, public domain · transmission lines at sunset — Kkiefuik, CC BY 4.0 · solar-sharing plant — Σ64, CC BY 3.0 · Namibian solar plant — Hp.Baumeler, CC BY-SA 4.0 · substation — Saiphani02, CC BY 4.0 · Lusaka — Icem4k, CC BY-SA 3.0. Forecourt photograph © Novea Energies.