Energy Connect

Firm, renewable power, developed in New Zealand

We develop grid-scale batteries and solar farms, and we model and structure the projects that turn them into supply a large load can rely on every half-hour.

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A firm load met every half-hour Illustrative day in 48 half-hours: hedges carry the night, solar covers the middle of the day and charges the battery, and the battery covers the evening peak. The supply line stays flat all day. 00:0006:0012:0018:00

What we do

Three services, one team: we develop our own projects, and we bring the same modelling and commercial work to yours.

Energy project development

Grid-scale storage and solar, from site and grid connection through consent, offtake and finance to financial close.

  • Site, land and grid connection
  • Resource consent
  • Offtake, procurement and project finance

Techno-economic planning

Investment-grade modelling of batteries, solar, wind and gas on half-hourly prices, built on our own optimisation platform.

  • Dispatch and revenue modelling
  • Hybrid sizing and LCOE / LCOS
  • Feasibility studies and model reviews

Energy advisory

Commercial structuring for developers, investors and large energy users who need firm supply or bankable contracts.

  • Firmed supply for data centres and large loads
  • Offtake, PPA and hedge strategy
  • Transaction and due-diligence support

Our portfolio

Storage first, then solar to pair with it, then the large loads that need both.

200 MW
/ 800 MWh, four-hour battery

Ōtāhuhu BESS

Beside Transpower's Ōtāhuhu substation in South Auckland. Financial close targeted for April 2027.

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~900 MW
of solar across six projects

Solar pipeline

Opunake (86 MW) and Waipawa (100 MW) consented; four more projects with land under option.

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60–100 MW
of firm supply, first campus

Firmed data centres

Turnkey data-centre campuses beside our batteries, supplied firm through dry winters from our own storage and solar.

How firming works

How we take a project to financial close

The same path for our own projects and for the developers we advise.

  1. Site and gridLand secured near capacity, and a connection path agreed with Transpower or the lines company.
  2. Model the valueHalf-hourly dispatch and revenue on real nodal prices, stress-tested through dry years.
  3. ConsentEffects assessment, specialist reports and council responses.
  4. Contract the revenueTolls, PPAs or firm supply, structured so lenders can bank them.
  5. Procure and closeEquipment and EPC tenders, investors and project debt.

Planning a project or a large new load?

Tell us what you are trying to build or supply, and we will tell you how we can help.

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