Powering Bettesu: How Greenamp Helped a Village in Liberia Power Their Future
Earlier this year, the lights came on in Bettesu. A village in Lofa County, Liberia, that until recently had power for about an hour a day. Now it has 24/7 electricity. The school has lights at night. The medical clinic can consistently operate their equipment. The internet works. None of it is glamorous. All of it is the difference between possibility and impossibility for this remote community.
This is the story of how that happened, and why it matters that an Alberta solar company was part of making it possible.
Life Before Reliable Power
Before solar, Bettesu relied on a diesel generator that only ran for about one hour per day. Diesel was expensive. Power was inconsistent. Most of the day, the village was without electricity, and at night, it was dark.
The medical clinic had it worse. Without dependable power equipment couldn't run consistently. Basic healthcare became harder than it needed to be.
“Most of the medical equipment we shipped to the health clinic needed power. And so we had no power. We bought a generator but the generator was costing us so much money.”
How the Project Came Together
A Greenamp client connected to Better Together Liberia, a charity that has worked alongside Bettesu for over a decade, asked whether Greenamp would consider helping with a solar project in the village. The answer was yes.
Greenamp donated the system, the materials, the electrical components, and the team's travel. From the day of the call to the day the system shipped was about three weeks. Materials left Canada in October 2025, arrived in Liberia in mid-February 2026, and the install team showed up on February 12, just days after the equipment arrived.
The trip from Liberia's capital to Bettesu can take a full day in the dry season, two days in the rainy season. The roads aren't roads. While it was a long journey, getting the system in, getting it working, and leaving the village with power they own was all that mattered.
The System
Greenamp installed a fully off-grid solar system designed around reliability and the community's actual needs:
22.32 kW solar array
40 kWh battery storage
Sol-Ark off-grid inverter (x2)
Owned and operated by the village
Off-grid means there's no grid to fall back on, no second installer down the road, no warranty truck if something stops working. That kind of project doesn't have margin for shortcuts. Battery sizing has to account for the worst-case day, not the average. Equipment has to be chosen for proven reliability, not whatever's cheapest. The parts that fail first have to be over-engineered. That's what got the system running.
What Changed
Bettesu now has 24/7 power and 24/7 internet access. The village has lights where there was once darkness. The school has power for evening study and electronics. The medical clinic has reliable electricity to run their equipment. It's infrastructure that supports education, healthcare, communication, and daily life — and the village owns it.
More Than an Installation
This wasn't a photo op. Greenamp team members traveled to Bettesu and worked on the install. Family members came too. one spouse, a teacher, helped at the school; another, a nurse, helped at the clinic. The team from Greenamp, Better Together Liberia, and the village worked together to make the project a success.
Why We Did It — and Why We're Sharing It
Bettesu is the first of what we hope will be ongoing community impact projects. We look for ways to use our work to give back.
We're sharing it because Bettesu is the honest answer to who Greenamp is — a company that does good work in Alberta and finds ways to put that work toward something bigger.
We were asked. We said yes. We donated the system, brought our team, and helped the community get reliable power. Then we came home and went back to work, designing solar systems for homes, acreages, farms, and businesses across Alberta with the same care.
Greenamp's promise is Power Your Future. In Bettesu, we got to help a village do exactly that.
When you're ready to do the same for your home, we're here to help.
