Solar and EV Charging in Auckland

Solar Installed by the Electrician, Not Around One

A solar system is an electrical installation. The panels are the visible part; the inverter, the isolators, the cabling, the switchboard work and the grid connection are where a system is done well or badly, and they are electrical work that has to be certified. We are electricians first, so the whole system - roof to switchboard - is installed, tested and signed off by the same people. Many switchboards take a solar system as they are and some do not. We check yours when we assess the job and tell you straight whether it needs anything, and if it does, it is part of the same job rather than a separate trade and a separate bill.

What We Install

• Solar panels. Roof-mounted arrays sized to your roof, its orientation and how your household actually uses power.
• Batteries, or not. A grid-connected system without storage, or a hybrid system with a battery so the power you make in the day is there in the evening. We will talk you through which suits your house rather than sell you the bigger one.
• EV chargers. A dedicated home charger in the garage or on the drive, on its own protected circuit, so the car charges overnight properly instead of off a wall socket.
• The switchboard and the grid connection. The board checked and, only if it needs it, upgraded to take the system; the isolators and labelling the standards require; and the paperwork for your lines company.

Going All-Electric: Gas Out, Electric In

If you have gas hot water, a gas hob or gas heating, solar is the natural moment to take the gas off the property and run the house entirely on electricity - and we can do that whole conversion. An electric or heat pump hot water cylinder in place of the gas califont, an induction hob in place of the gas hob, a heat pump in place of the gas heater, and all the wiring, circuits and switchboard work those changes need. We can do it at the same time as the solar, so the house is disrupted once, or as a separate job on its own if that suits you better.

Commercial Solar

Businesses that use power during the day - workshops, cool stores, offices, retail - are often the best fit for solar of all. We install commercial systems and the switchboard and distribution work that goes with them, scheduled around your trading hours.

Before You Get a Quote

It helps to have a recent power bill to hand, to know roughly which way your roof faces, and to have a sense of what you want the system to do: cut the bill, charge a car, keep the lights on in an outage, or get off gas. Those answers change the design more than anything else. We do not publish savings figures, because every house is different; what we will do is design the system for yours and tell you honestly what it can and cannot do.

Switchboard upgrades, and how to tell if yours needs one.