Powershop is an online power company available to residents in the Blenheim area, including Bleneheim’s CBD, Redwoodtown, Springlands, Mayfield, Burnham, Fairhall and Renwick. We’ve been supplying homes and businesses with electricity in Blenheim since 2009.
Who has the power in Blenheim?
Around 26,323 individual properties are connected to the electricity network in the Marlborough / Marlborough Lines region in which Blenheim is based.
The average consumption per property in Blenheim is approximately 6,941 kWh per year. This compares to 6,890 kWh per year for the North Island as a whole and 7,888 kWh per year in the South Island.
Where does the power come from?
As a country, we’re sitting around the 85% mark for percentage of renewable energy generation. With a Government goal of becoming 100% renewable by 2030, we’re a country committed to reducing impact on the environment through our electricity demands.
Marlborough’s power comes from a mixture of sources including hydroelectric and solar power stations in or near the region, with a large amount of the power demand coming from the national grid.
Who is the local lines company in Blenheim?
Marlborough Lines is the energy lines company in Blenheim. Marlborough Lines also supplies power to Picton, Havelock and as far as Marlborough Sounds. As the lines company, it’s their role to maintain the poles, lines and equipment used to deliver energy to the region. As the regional network, they’re the best ones to ring if there is a fault or outage at your property.
Do I get a dividend from my lines company in Blenheim?
Yes Marlborough Lines has discounts and distributions to residents. Learn more about this here.
How much do I pay for power while living in Blenheim?
If you provide your home address in our calculator you can get a simple estimate of your rates. You can also upload a recent bill to get an annual cost estimate and find out how much Powershop could save you compared to your current retailer.
Or you can download the current rates for residential customers in Blenheim.
How can I save money on power in Blenheim?
There are a number of ways to reduce power costs for those living in Blenheim:
- Move some of your biggest consumption activities to off peak. This can bring down your kWh usage costs.
- Learn about the consumption demands of your appliances. Then find ways to reduce operation time of these.
- Blenheim’s famous sunshine and good weather is perfect for drying clothes outside, for free!
- Control hot water costs by sticking to showers of 5 minutes in length or less.
- Preheat your oven to the time it needs - and no longer. You can save significantly by managing how long the oven is switched on for.
- Monitor your usage data if possible to identify where the spikes occur - then you can make more informed decisions about usage behaviour.
- If you’re with Powershop, check out our regular discounted specials.
For more power saving tips read the full Saving Electricity guide.
What is Get Shifty?
Time of Use pricing, which is available to customers with smart meters in nearly all network areas – including Marlborough Lines, is about our peak and off-peak habits. For those who are able to do more of their power consumption outside of peak times, they’re able to save on power costs. We call our time of use offering Get Shifty. With Get Shifty, you can save money when you shift your power use to off-peak times of the day. Get Shifty or ‘Time of Use’ pricing is the default in Blenheim and the Marlborough region.
Note that while your off-peak rate is lower with Get Shifty, your peak rate is higher.
What are the rates for Get Shifty?
To find out your Get Shifty rates for Marlborough Lines, get in touch with us via Live chat or download our full rates for residential customers in the Blenheim area.
