Office evenings: drinks, nibbles and a Q&A
Come and meet the people behind PowerHub, see how a bill works line by line, and ask anything you like. Bring a recent power bill and we will start your free analysis on the spot. Evenings are free; places are limited, so please RSVP.
Next: Thursday 8 October 2026, Auckland
PowerHub, Level 8, 139 Quay Street, Auckland CBD
Doors and drinks from 5:30pm. We start at 6:00pm and finish by 7:15pm.
RSVP by email with your name, the number of people coming and the suburb you live in. We will confirm by return email.
What happens on the night
Twenty minutes from Sophia: why PowerHub exists, what the Electricity Authority approval means, how a PowerHub bill works (live, on screen), and what the Fever-1 battery does on a spike night.
Thirty minutes of your questions. Dry-year risk, price spikes, the battery subscription, moving house, solar: nothing is off the table.
The bring-your-bill corner. Two laptops, two people. Hand over a recent bill and we start pricing your actual usage against the half-hourly market while you are here.
Members in the room. A couple of existing members will be there to talk about their own numbers.
Getting there
139 Quay Street is on the waterfront between Britomart and the ferry terminal. Take the lift to Level 8. Britomart station and the downtown ferry terminal are a two-minute walk; evening parking is available in the Britomart and Downtown car parks.
Coming up
Queenstown, November 2026 (date and venue to be confirmed)
Wānaka, November 2026 (date and venue to be confirmed)
Halswell, Christchurch, November 2026 (date and venue to be confirmed)
Auckland office evenings, late November and early December 2026
Dates are confirmed here first and on our Facebook page. If you would like an evening in your area, tell us at info@powerhubgroup.com.
The small print
Evenings are free and there is no obligation. Anything we say on the night about prices and fees excludes GST unless we say otherwise, and nothing said there is a guarantee of savings: every home is different, which is why we start with your own bill.
What these numbers assume
Thirty percent of your consumption falls in peak periods and seventy percent outside them - conservative for a typical household; if you already shift load overnight, your real exposure is lower than shown. The battery is a 15 kWh Fever-1 cycling once a day at 90% round-trip efficiency, using 13.5 kWh of its capacity. It discharges into your most expensive half-hours and recharges in the cheapest, and the model charges you for the round-trip losses. It does not assume you export at peak, and it does not assume perfect foresight - both would improve the numbers, and we have left them out. Network delivery, metering and the Electricity Authority levy are excluded: they are real costs and they are on your bill, but they do not change between scenarios. Neither stress scenario is a forecast. Both are chosen because they are severe enough to be uncomfortable and plausible enough to have happened before in some form.
No price is guaranteed
Wholesale prices are set every 30 minutes and spikes are not capped. Any figure shown here is an illustration using the assumptions stated on this page; it is not a forecast and not a limit on what you could be charged. Wholesale pricing suits households that can absorb a bill that varies materially month to month, and it does not suit everyone.
The question to ask yourself
Could you absorb the worst figure in the row that matches your usage, without it causing real difficulty? If the honest answer is no, wholesale pricing is the wrong product for you and we would rather say so now than in July. Powerswitch, run by Consumer NZ, and Billy, run by the Electricity Authority, are both free and both independent, and for a lot of households one of their answers will be better than ours.
All figures on this page exclude GST.