About Setcon

Born from the field, built for Africa.

Setcon is a controls and instrumentation company engineering the control systems, SCADA platforms, and automation layer behind renewable energy plants — founded by engineers who spent years commissioning sites and kept running into the same gaps.

Engineering the control systems we wished existed.

Across the South African renewable energy boom, our team kept hitting the same wall — off-the-shelf power plant controllers that were either too generic to perform, or too rigid to adapt. So we built what we wished existed.

The same team behind 100+ control system deliveries under Solareff now executes under Setcon — with Solareff's continued backing. Same engineers. Same field experience. A sharper focus on one thing: control systems engineered around the plant — its topology, inverter fleet, grid connection, and operational goals — built from the ground up, in Johannesburg, for Africa.

The Founders
JJ

Jaco Jansen van Rensburg

Co-Founder & CEO

Experienced controls and instrumentation engineer bringing technical leadership and strategic vision to Setcon's growth across the African market.

CB

Cuan Bainbridge

Co-Founder & COO

Electrical & electronic engineer with deep expertise in PPC design, HMI development, and on-site commissioning across South Africa's renewable energy sector.

Outcomes over output. Plant reality over product specs.

The four principles that shape how we approach every project, from the first scoping call to the tenth year of support.

01

Design around the plant

Control philosophies derived from actual plant topology, grid connection, and operational goals — not pulled from a template.

02

Compliance as a baseline

Grid-code compliance is engineered in from day one — not a last-mile patch or commissioning-week scramble.

03

Operator-first SCADA

Designed for the people who'll be using it at 2am, not for the demo that wins the contract.

04

Long-term partnership

Our relationship starts at handover — not ends. We stay available for the decades a plant is actually expected to run.

A disciplined, repeatable engineering process.

01

Discover & Scope

Plant topology, inverter fleet, grid connection, operational goals. We design around what's real, not assumed.

02

Design & Engineer

Control philosophy, I/O architecture, SCADA layout, cyber-security, and grid-code logic — documented and reviewable.

03

Build & FAT

Panel build, PLC / RTU programming, HMI development, and factory acceptance testing before anything leaves the workshop.

04

Commission & Support

On-site SAT, grid-code compliance testing, operator training, and a long-term support agreement tailored to your site.

Engineered to the standards the industry trusts.

SANGC South African grid code
IEC 61850 Substation automation
DNP3 / Modbus Industrial protocols
IEC 62443 OT cyber-security

Want to work with us?

Whether you're planning a new plant, retrofitting an existing one, or hiring — we'd like to hear from you.

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