Whangārei and the surrounding Northland coast is where battery backup earns its keep fastest – this network has a real history of extended storm and cyclone outages, and a lot of our Northland customers first call us after losing power for days, not because they were shopping for solar. Coastal baches from the Tutukaka coast up toward the Bay of Islands are a common install, alongside inland lifestyle blocks.
Northland gets more sunshine than almost anywhere else in the North Island – Kaitaia averages around 2,200 hours a year – so systems here tend to perform well even sized conservatively.