Sun natural power balanced with gas

Looking to harness the power of the sun to power your place but concerned about what happens when it’s dark, cloudy or a rainy day? Partner with natural gas as a backup for a balanced solution. 

Use it or lose it

With solar, sadly your energy source disappears with the setting sun, and batteries to store solar power are still fairly expensive. It’s worth thinking about your household situation when sizing up solar for your place.

You can power your whole house with solar energy, but have hot water and heating supplied by natural gas; ensuring that the shower will always be hot, and in winter your home is warm, dry and cosy. 

Solar can get a boost from gas

If you have a busy household with heavy hot water demand, solar works well with a secondary power source like natural gas. Some gas continuous hot water systems are solar-compatible, so you can ensure that when the sun loses its heat your hot water system won’t.

Further information

Are you based in Wellington, Taranaki, Manawatū or Hawke's Bay? You may be able to connect your home to natural gas with The Gas Hub.

Enter your address in our gas checker for an instant result on whether you're within our gas network connection range!

We also have a very useful hot water cost comparison tool that compares upfront and running costs within our natural gas network regions. Find out whether a natural gas, electricity, LPG, or solar hot water system could be the right solution for you. Try our hot water cost comparison tool now.

Ready to connect?

Check out the connection process, to know what choices you'll need to make as part of getting connected to natural gas.

Submit your natural gas connection application today. Our customer team will then ring you to confirm a few more details and progress your application.

Want to know more?

If you've had a good look around our website and still have questions let us know what you'd like more information about.

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  • Want to know why most people choose natural gas continuous

    01/04/2019

    Natural gas continuous flow water heating is often called instant hot water or infinity hot water. Switching to gas continuous is a powerful and practical home improvement that doesn’t need a big budget.

    The majority of Kiwis connecting to natural gas choose a continuous flow hot water system for their home.