Nelson, 2,050 sun hours a year, the most in New Zealand
Every hour ofthat sun ismoney on the roof.
Keep scrolling and watch the light move across a day. A 6.6kW system on a Nelson roof makes about 8,800 units a year, twenty metres above your kitchen, for twenty five years.
890 systems installed, 12 years, two crews, our own sparky
One roof, one day
Sixteen panels, on by four o’clock
Scroll and they go on in the order our crew actually fits them, north face first. Scaffolding goes up the day before, power is off for about ninety minutes, and you are generating before we drive away.
07:30, rails
Brackets into rafters, not battens
We scan for every rafter before a single hole goes in, and each bracket is flashed and sealed. This is the part that leaks in ten years if someone rushes it, so it takes two hours and we do not apologise for that.
10:00, panels
North face fills first
North earns more across a year, so it gets the panels before west does. If your roof only runs east and west we will tell you what that costs you, usually about fifteen percent, before you sign anything.
13:00, inverter
On the shaded wall, never the sunny one
Inverters run hot and heat kills them. Ours go on the south wall or inside the garage, wired back to your board by our own registered electrician rather than a subcontractor we met that morning.
15:30, switch on
Generating before the van leaves
Certificate of compliance, monitoring app on your phone, and we sit with you until you can read it. The export meter application goes to your retailer the same afternoon.
Richmond, from above
Nine hundred roofs and counting
Drive down almost any street between Stoke and Wakefield and you will pass something we put up. Ask us for the three closest to you and we will give you the addresses, not a stock photo.
- systems installed across Nelson, Tasman and Golden Bay
- 0systems installed across Nelson, Tasman and Golden Bay
- years installing, the same two crews the whole time
- 0years installing, the same two crews the whole time
- kilowatts now sitting on roofs in this region
- 5.4kkilowatts now sitting on roofs in this region
- site visits where we tell you not to do it, and why
- 1 in 9site visits where we tell you not to do it, and why
The bit that matters
What people ended up paying
Three real jobs, three different answers. We put the system size and whether they took a battery next to each one, because a testimonial without those numbers tells you nothing.
6.6 kW, no battery
Bill went from $310 a month to $84. Took four years and a bit to pay itself off, exactly what the quote said.
5.2 kW, talked out of a battery
They talked us out of the battery on the first visit and said come back in two years. Nobody else did that.
9.9 kW, with battery
Panel stopped reporting after a storm. Replaced under warranty in nine days, and they chased the manufacturer, not me.
Find out what your roof would actually do
Forty minutes on site, a shading study across a full year, a look at your last twelve bills, and a fixed quote emailed in three days. No charge, and nobody sitting at your kitchen table at 7pm.