About
Energy independence for the businesses that make things
Involve Energy exists for the South Island’s productive economy: dairy farms, orchards, packhouses, wineries, processors and manufacturers. Every system we put on a roof or a paddock lowers the real cost of production for twenty-five years and hardens the business against energy shocks. That is capital formation, not consumption, and it is the kind of work worth doing properly.
Straight about it
What we are, and what we are not
Not
We are
NotA solar installer with stock to shift.
We areAn independent design, financing and project layer.
NotA subscription on someone else's balance sheet.
We areAn owned asset on yours, from day one.
NotA lead-gen site selling your details to three installers.
We areOne accountable counterparty, end to end.
NotA pitch built on best-case numbers.
We areConservative modelling from your actual bills.
How it works
How we are paid, and who does the work
- How we are paid
- A margin on each project we design and manage, and a fixed fee for the feasibility study, quoted up front and credited in full against the project if you go ahead (the terms). We do not sell your details to installers or anyone else.
- Who installs
- SEANZ-member local installers holding the Mains Parallel Generation endorsement the Electrical Workers Registration Board requires for solar and battery work. Every installation carries a Certificate of Compliance and an independent inspection, and we manage the lines company’s connection approval. For installers.
- How the numbers are built
- One conservative model behind every figure on the site, with every assumption and source published and versioned. How we model.
- Where we work
- The South Island: Canterbury, Otago and Central Otago, Southland, Marlborough, Nelson Tasman and the West Coast. Start with farm solar or commercial solar costs.
Who you deal with
Michael Wilkins
Founder, Involve Energy
Michael has built marketing and operations systems for businesses since 2013 through Involve Digital, and founded Involve Energy to bring commercial solar to the South Island's productive businesses with independent modelling and straight numbers.
Start with the numbers, not a sales call.
The calculator gives an honest indicative answer in thirty seconds. The feasibility study turns it into a banker-grade model of your site.