What you’ll love about natural gas
Natural gas packs quite a punch. It instantly provides all the heat, hot water and flame for cooking you could ever want, allowing you to get on with your busy lives. Around a quarter of Kiwi homes use gas.
Cooking
Hot water
Find out how to improve the hot water situation by connecting your home to gas. Choose a natural gas water heater and enjoy powerful and reliable showers. There are high efficiency, yet affordable systems for every household from instant gas continuous flow to cylinders. Enjoy better hot water with natural gas.
Heating
A home heated with natural gas is luxuriously comfortable and highly efficient. From ambient flame-effect fires to economical space heaters to whole-home central heating, there’s a heating solution for every household and every budget. Enjoy better heating with natural gas.
Bottle-less BBQ
Comfort
A natural gas home is luxuriously comfortable. That comfort comes from the toasty-warmth of gas heating, the delight of endless hot water and the precision of a gas hob as you cook up your favourite dish. Upgrade to a natural gas connection and experience the benefits yourself.
Control
Natural gas gives greater control of your energy bills by giving greater control of two things that use the most energy in your home – hot water and heating.
- Enjoy efficient gas heating that can be zoned, switched on via phone app, and is highly programmable with the push of a button.
- Keep your family safe with controllable hot water temperatures.
- Love the instant flame, speed, power and precision of gas cooking that all the professional chefs prefer.
Cost
Gas appliances are incredibly efficient, some with 95% efficiency and 7-star ratings – so they can cost a lot less to run.
Per kilowatt charges (the per unit of energy cost) of natural gas are much cheaper than electricity, and even with daily fixed charges, natural gas is affordable and often works out a cheaper option if there are a few of you at home.
To find out estimated costs for natural gas hot water versus other options like an electric cylinder or LPG, use our online hot water comparison tool to explore the benefits of switching to a new gas connection. It takes a few minutes and you can have the results emailed.
The future of gas
Almost 300,000 Kiwi homes are energised by natural gas, which already has a much lower carbon footprint than other energy options, but there is still more to do.
Powerco and The Gas Hub are working to make biomethane (a renewable gas) available for our customers, so you won’t have to change the way you heat your home, use hot water or cook your food.Find out more about the future of gas and how biomethane could power your home.
