A no-obligation site visit or virtual review of your plans, an assessment of your expected energy use, recommendations on solar, battery, heat pumps, ventilation, hot water and EV charging, and a same-day written quote. There's no charge, no pressure, and no commitment. We'll also flag anything we'd want your builder or electrician to do differently to make the install cleaner and cheaper.

A typical Sustainable Living package (solar, ducted heat pump, ventilation and hot water heat pump) starts from around $39,999. A Full Resilience package (adding home battery, whole-home ducted HVAC, EV charger and zone control) starts from around $49,999. A Zero Bill package, sized so you pay nothing for power for at least five years, is priced on request and depends on your expected usage and the degree home electrification.

Installing solar during a new build isn't always cheaper. As trades often need to return to site across several build phases, which adds call out costs. Where you do save is by bundling: choosing Future Energy for your solar, heat pumps, hot water and EV charging together means one team, one coordinated design, and one set of site visits. Using five separate suppliers at a typical $200 call-out each, with solar and ducted systems each needing a return visit, conservatively adds up to around $1,400 in site visit fees alone, before any of the work gets done. With a bundled install, that coordination cost effectively disappears.

The bigger advantage, though, is the result. A cleanly integrated system with no surface conduit, cables routed through the wall cavities, switchboard and hot water cylinder positioned correctly for solar from day one, and ducted heating designed into the ceiling space rather than bolted on afterwards.

If your budget is tight, our Future Ready package prewires your home for solar and EV charging during the build so you can add them later without the mess and expense of a retrofit.

A Zero Bills home is a new build fitted with solar panels, a home battery and a heat pump, paired with the Octopus Energy Zero Bills tariff that guarantees no power bills for at least five years. Future Energy is one of the approved installers for Octopus Zero Bills in New Zealand.  We'll size your solar and battery system to match your home and lifestyle so you qualify for the guarantee. The home must use electric heating (no gas) and maintain an internet connection so Octopus can manage the battery.

On a new build, the cheapest way to fund solar, a battery or a hot water heat pump is usually to include it in your build contract, so it's financed within your construction loan and spread across your mortgage. The banks' green home loan top-ups (ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Westpac, Kiwibank) generally can't be used during the build itself, since they're top-ups on an existing home loan against a completed property, but you may be able to use one to expand your system once the build is finished. Structures vary by lender, so check with your bank or mortgage adviser early. We'll package your quote in the format your builder and bank need

We design and install solar, batteries, EV chargers and hot water heat pumps in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Christchurch, Dunedin and the Southern Lakes. In Auckland and Dunedin, we also install ducted, single-room and multi-room heat pumps and balanced pressure ventilation systems. If you're outside these regions, get in touch; we may still be able to help through our installer network.

Solar panels themselves don't usually require separate consent if they're installed during the main build under your existing building consent. Battery storage and any electrical changes must comply with NZ wiring regulations (AS/NZS 3000) and the inverter must comply with AS/NZS 4777. We handle all the compliance paperwork, network connection applications with your local lines company, and warranty registration as part of every install.

Ducted heat pumps are installed in the ceiling cavity and deliver warm or cool air through discreet vents in each room, giving even, whole-home temperature control with almost no visual impact. High-wall (split) heat pumps are wall-mounted units that heat one room or open-plan area at a time. New builds are perfect for ducted systems because the cavity space and electrical runs can be planned in from the start. Retrofitting ducting into a finished home is often harder. Most of our Sustainable Living and Full Resilience packages include ducted systems for this reason.

Often, yes, but it comes down to how you use power. Hot water, appliances and EV charging can be timed to run in daylight while your panels generate, and every unit you use yourself saves the retail rate (around 30 to 40c/kWh) instead of earning the lower buy-back rate (8 to 17c/kWh). Keeping your home warm is the exception, since it's needed most on cold mornings and evenings when there's little sun. Because a low-energy home has a smaller bill to start with, the key is sizing the system to match rather than overbuilding. We'll model it against your actual usage so the payback figure is real for your home