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Why Kiwi Mobile is shaking up the mobile industry
Stop wasting money on unused mobile data! Did you know Kiwi’s collectively spend around $400 million every year on unused mobile data? Shocking,...
Byadmin31 July 2024Group Mobile Plans: Yay or Nay? A Kiwi’s Guide to Shared Plans
So, you’re keen to suss out whether a group mobile plan is worth it? Well, grab a cuppa and settle in, ’cause we’re...
Byadmin31 July 2024All the different savers
The Kiwi Mobile Choice plan is flexible, fair and designed to save you money. You don’t need to worry about running out of...
Byadmin31 July 2024Understanding the Choice plan
The Kiwi Mobile Choice plan is a whole new way to mobile. It’s different to what you have seen before and designed to...
Byadmin31 July 2024Why is Electric Kiwi not taking new Electricity customers?
Updated 24th July 2024 Electric Kiwi has made the decision to stop accepting new electricity customers due to extremely elevated wholesale energy prices....
Byadmin18 July 2024Introducing Peaky Bank
With Peaky Bank, you’ll get paid $2/kWh to reduce your usage when things get peaky. What do you mean by “peaky”? The electricity...
Byadmin16 July 2024Meet Our Electric Kiwi Juice Hacker
Have you ever wondered how coding can change the way we manage power? We’ve been on a mission to find out! Our Juice...
Byadmin4 July 2024Breaking Up with Your Broadband Provider Shouldn’t Be Hard to Do
At Electric Kiwi, we like keeping things simple and fair. But we’ve noticed a problem in the broadband industry that’s making things tricky...
Byadmin13 February 2024How our MoveMaster customers are saving money on a time-of-use plan
We asked our MoveMaster customers to share their tips and techniques on shifting their power usage to save on their power bills. These...
Byadmin15 January 2024Why time-of-use plans are good for all Kiwis
With a time-of-use (TOU) plan, the cost of your electricity varies based on the time of day. You have a rate for peak...
Byadmin12 December 2023Make the most of load shifting with Smart Home Devices
First of all, what’s a smart home? A smart home is a house that uses smart gadgets and technology to make life easier....
Byadmin12 December 2023How to save money on your power bills with load shifting
By shifting your power usage to off-peak hours, you can reduce the strain on New Zealand’s power grid and you’ll be more likely...
Byadmin12 December 2023App 2.0 is here!
We’re all about making things better – and our Electric Kiwi app was long overdue for some TLC, so we’ve revamped the app...
Byadmin2 November 2023Big Four Gentailers Profiting at the Expense of Kiwi Households
The electricity market in New Zealand has been making headlines lately, and it’s not for the right reasons. The big four ‘gentailers’ (those...
Byadmin4 October 2023We are back on Powerswitch
So great news, we have resolved our differences regarding fees with Powerswitch and we are back on the site. We were able to...
Byadmin4 July 2023We’ve claimed the coveted crown of Canstar’s Most Satisfied Customers award for electricity!
We pride ourselves in delivering the best service to our customers – after all, our mantra is to ‘make it better’. With that,...
Byadmin20 June 2023The STEM student we’re supporting this year
What kind of person appears in your head when you imagine a hacker? Are they male or female? In the movies, all the...
Byadmin6 June 2023How to save on your power bills this winter
Winter is just around the corner, and you know what that means – hot toddies, skiing holidays… and unfortunately higher power bills. With...
Byadmin10 May 2023This is how we can lower your power bill, by saving on water heating
Water heating is one of the biggest contributors to home energy bills, not helped by the fact that most hot water cylinders in...
Byadmin6 April 2023‘Knowledge is power’: How this EK customer is saving with MoveMaster
And it’s working a treat. Because of the day-time power generation by her solar, flexibility of supply from the battery and her separate...
Byadmin31 January 2023