Northland gets more sunshine than almost anywhere else in mainland New Zealand – Kaitaia averages around 2,200 hours a year, ahead of both Auckland and Waikato – which makes it one of the best-performing regions for solar output in the country. It’s also the region where backup power matters most. Northland’s network is long, rural […]
Waikato is where off-grid solar makes the clearest financial sense of any region we serve. Dairy farms, lifestyle blocks and rural sections here are often a long way from the nearest line – and a new grid connection over that distance can run well into five figures before you’ve paid for a single kilowatt-hour. In […]
Auckland is Thermalay’s biggest market by population, but it isn’t the sunniest region we serve – Auckland averages around 2,122 sunshine hours a year, slightly behind both Waikato and Northland. What Auckland has instead is density and grid reliability, which changes the calculation: most Auckland installs are grid-tied hybrid systems – solar plus battery, still […]