Savoring Tradition, Empowered by Green Energy: Dyness Helps a South African Restaurant Embark on a Sustainable Journey

Introduction: When Classic Cuisine Meets Clean Power

In Centurion, Pretoria, Crawdaddy’s Pub & Co — a restaurant cherished by locals for nearly three decades — is embracing a quiet but powerful energy transformation. Famous since 1995 for its signature seafood and steak dishes, this culinary landmark is now powered by the Dyness 215kWh DH200F C&I storage system, perfectly blending traditional flavors with renewable energy and marking a new chapter in sustainable dining.

Power Dilemma: A Shared Challenge for South Africa's Restaurant Industry

As a long-standing restaurant cherished by countless customers for its fond memories, a stable power supply is crucial for its daily operations. From keeping kitchen equipment running continuously and ensuring refrigeration systems operate reliably to enhancing the dining atmosphere and maintaining seamless payment systems, every aspect relies on dependable electricity.

However, South Africa’s ongoing load shedding and unstable grid supply have long posed major challenges for the food service industry.

Crawdaddy's management team understands that maintaining high-quality service and operational stability requires finding an energy solution that ensures power security while aligning with environmental principles.

Precise Matching: DH200F Integrated Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Solution

After in-depth research, Crawdaddy's ultimately chose Dyness, a company with years of experience in the South African energy storage market, as its partner, aiming to promote energy upgrades and fundamentally improve power supply issues through collaboration.

The project deployed a Dyness 100kW/215kWh DH200F integrated photovoltaic and energy storage system, perfectly integrated with the restaurant's rooftop photovoltaic system. In actual operation, this energy solution addresses the customer's needs for "self-consumption of photovoltaic power, peak-valley regulation, and emergency power outages," ensuring the restaurant's energy independence and operational stability during power fluctuations:

1. Efficient Daytime Utilization: Solar power primarily supports the restaurant’s daytime load, with excess energy stored in batteries.

2. Intelligent Revenue Management: Once the batteries are fully charged, remaining electricity can be sold back to the grid, effectively reducing electricity costs and generating additional revenue for the restaurant.

3. Seamless Switching Guarantee: Equipped with an intelligent STS system and an off-grid switching time of less than 20 milliseconds, ensuring the restaurant continues to operate normally without disruption during power outages.

Product Highlights: DH200F—Smart Control, Hassle-Free Green Power

As Dyness' flagship product for the commercial and industrial storage market, the DH200F outdoor air-cooled integrated photovoltaic-storage cabinet features a multifunctional integrated design that delivers a truly “plug-and-play” experience. Key advantages include:

• High Scalability: Supports up to 12 AC parallel units in grid-connected scenarios, expandable to 2.58MWh, reserving capacity for future business expansion.

• All-Scenario Coverage: Supports PV integration and grid-connected/off-grid switching, perfectly addressing all application needs for solar, storage, and diesel scenarios.

• Intelligent Management: Through Dyness's proprietary Smart Cloud Platform and Dyness Smart App, users gain real-time visibility into system operation, enabling remote monitoring and fault diagnosis.

• Multi-functional Applications: Delivers diverse capabilities including peak shaving, grid dispatch demand response, and backup power services, significantly enhancing off-grid self-sufficiency rates.

Win-Win Collaboration: Full-Cycle Services from Planning to Operations

Dyness consistently upholds a “customer-centric” service philosophy. From preliminary system planning and solution design to installation and commissioning, Dyness provides comprehensive technical support.

This project adopted a hybrid implementation model combining on-site execution with remote support: Crawdaddy's local installation team handled field implementation, while Dyness engineers ensured seamless project delivery through remote technical assistance, specialized training, and trial operation guidance. Moving forward, Dyness's robust after-sales and maintenance system will continuously safeguard long-term secure and efficient system operation, delivering sustained value to our clients.

Conclusion:  Empowering a Sustainable Future Together

The successful collaboration between Crawdaddy's Pub & Co and Dyness not only addressed the restaurant's specific operational challenges but also became another exemplary case for Dyness' commercial and industrial energy storage solutions in the South African market.

Leveraging its technological expertise and brand strength from serving over 500,000 global users, Dyness continues to deliver safe, efficient, and reliable energy solutions to the African market.

On the journey toward a low-carbon future, Dyness will persist in driving technological innovation as its engine, collaborating with global users and partners to build a new green and sustainable energy ecosystem.