Smart Homes Hamilton
Make More of Your Solar in Hamilton
Connect energy monitoring and automation with household solar to make better use of the electricity you generate.
What this could look like at home
The cylinder heating on sunshine. The pool pump running midday. The EV sipping solar through the afternoon. Less exported, more used.
It is a clear Waikato afternoon and the panels are producing more electricity than the house is using at that moment. Where suitable monitoring and control are installed, loads such as hot water or pool equipment can potentially be shifted into periods of stronger solar generation. That can help the home use more of the electricity it generates directly rather than automatically exporting all of the surplus.
Depending on the equipment and control strategy, suitable loads can run to schedules or respond to available solar generation while maintaining the homeowner's normal requirements. Examples include hot water, pool filtration, pool heating, EV charging where supported, and suitable heating or cooling.
What we can automate
Worth automating in this part of the home
Heat the hot water cylinder when your solar is exporting
Run pool filtration and heating during generation hours
Coordinate EV charging with available solar where supported
Shift selected appliances and heating strategies into sunny windows
See, on your energy monitor, self-use going up and export going down
How it works
A straightforward process
We look at what you already have
We assess the existing equipment and electrical installation, and check what is compatible.
We work out what is worth automating
We look at what your system generates, when it generates it, and which of your loads could sensibly run in those hours.
We install and set it up
2E Electrical installs suitable controls, configures them and shows you how everything works. Normal switches and manual controls keep working alongside the automation.
Already live there? That's fine.
Load shifting can usually be added to homes that already have solar, without touching the solar system itself.
See Smart Home RetrofitRelated specialist 2E service
Smart Homes Hamilton
Automation, monitoring and using household loads intelligently with solar.
Solar Hamilton
Solar system design and installation.
Questions
About solar + smart home
Talk to the team
What would you like this part of your home to do?
Already have panels, or thinking about them? Tell us what you would like to run on your own power.
Serving Hamilton, Cambridge and Te Awamutu.
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