Home Electrification Guide
A simple step-by-step guide for Southland homeowners: list your appliances, work out daily kWh, cut demand first, then size solar and batteries to what is left.
Guides and resources
Practical, Southland-specific guides for going electric: what to do first at home, how to size solar, where businesses can get help, and the basics of electric vehicles.
Business Electrification Strategies
Where Southland businesses can get help to electrify: EECA co-funding, Great South, green business loans, and the practical first steps.
Electric Vehicle Basics
Where Southlanders can find reliable, official information on electric vehicles: costs, charging, road user charges, and where to charge around Invercargill, Gore and Te Anau.
Also on this site
- Electrify your homeWhere to start, with Southland savings for each switch.
- The Southland numbersRewiring Aotearoa's October 2026 regional report, summarised.
- Powering ForwardsFarm solar and batteries vs diesel generators, 20-year costs.
- Rewiring Aotearoa guidesNational machine-by-machine guides.