Electrical infrastructure specialists
powering your developments
Halo Networks provides smarter electrical infrastructure solutions for modern residential, commercial, and land development projects. As a licensed network operator, Halo designs, builds, livens, and manages electrical networks that simplify power delivery. By utilising a Halo Network from the point of supply through to each home or building’s smart meter, developers remove complexity, reduce reliance on traditional utility timelines, and streamline the connection process. Halo Networks holds Electricity Operator status under Section 24 of the Electricity Act 1992, issued by the Minister of Energy, providing statutory authority to construct, operate, and maintain electricity infrastructure within public road corridors and ensuring our networks are delivered and maintained to recognised utility standards.
Halo delivers fully integrated network solutions that combine efficient reticulation design, coordinated construction, ICP management, and network commissioning. As an independent provider in a market long dominated by legacy distributors, Halo offers developers a smarter, cost-effective alternative to traditional power supply models, applying modern network design practices and engineering standards to deliver reliable, scalable electrical networks that support your construction programme, reduce risk, and ensure every property is connected and ready for occupancy.
Halo Networks delivered the complete electrical infrastructure for this high-density development, supporting the delivery of a 66-home community in Favona, Auckland. Working closely with the developer, Halo coordinated both the Vector grid connection works and the subdivision’s internal electrical reticulation to deliver a single integrated electrical network across the site.
The project included the installation of a new transformer and three-phase supply, working with a road-widening provision to relocate Chorus and Vector assets, high-voltage cable installation from the existing overhead network, and construction of the underground low-voltage reticulation servicing all dwellings. By delivering the network design, infrastructure installation, metering, and commissioning as a coordinated service, Halo enabled a streamlined electrical servicing solution that worked in with the developer’s tight construction programme.
Leveraging Halo’s in-house engineering expertise, the project team developed a customised transformer easement and grounding design that went beyond standard Vector template solutions. Rather than applying a conventional “one-size-fits-all” approach, Halo engineered a tailored layout that better suited the constraints of this infill residential development.
This design approach allowed the transformer easement to be positioned and configured in a way that preserved building yield, maintained clear pedestrian access, and reduced the overall easement footprint on the site. Through careful grounding design and network layout optimisation, Halo was also able to eliminate the need for fencing around the transformer — avoiding additional construction costs while achieving a more positive urban design outcome for the development.
By applying specialist in-house knowledge and resolving complex design constraints early, Halo delivered a smarter infrastructure solution that avoided the limitations often created by standardised network designs. On tightly planned residential developments, this level of tailored engineering can significantly reduce design hurdles and enable better overall outcomes for both the developer and the community.
Halo Networks delivered the complete electrical infrastructure for this 50-home development in South Auckland, providing a smarter alternative to the traditional utility delivery model. Faced with significant costs and delays associated with extending the public network through a future road corridor, the developer partnered with Halo to implement a Halo Network, reducing infrastructure costs and accelerating project delivery.
Halo designed and constructed a primary reticulation and parent network system from a transformer at the road frontage, enabling the entire electrical network to be installed within the development boundary. This approach eliminated road corridor works, reduced infrastructure costs, and streamlined delivery, while providing all lot connections, ICP establishment, smart metering, and energisation across the site.
We’ll take the stress out of dealing with the likes of Vector, WEL, or PowerCo, coordinating your electrical infrastructure installation for you.
Our design team specialises in maximising design efficiencies by strategically locating your point of supply, optimising HV/LV runs, and minimising third-party costs.
Reduce programme risk, avoid costly re‑work, and get power on sooner to achieve 224, CCC and titles and ultimately,
settlement.
Bring us the local network operator’s quote for your project,
and Halo will aim to not just beat it, but to smash it
out of the park!
Are you a retailer wanting to trade on Halo’s networks?
Halo’s Distributor Agreement is based on the Electricity Authority’s standard Distributor Agreement.
Click here to download a copy of our standard Agreement.
Yes! An embedded network allows for each connection (ICP) to choose their own independent electricity retailer, from four major retailers currently trading on Halo’s networks.
Halo largely mirrors the published lines company rates for tenants under our model, so tenants are typically price neutral from a lines charge perspective when we establish an embedded network.
Halo will own and operate the embedded network on your behalf.
Yep! Generally all common area power (such as external lighting, electric gates etc) is run on the embedded network, and billed separately via the Body Corp or Residents’ Society.
Halo will need the electrical infrastructure installed within the project (ie. a gate meter at the property boundary, connected to the underground power reticulation from the boundary to the meter within in each home/apartment). We can assist you with all of this!
Please call us 24/7 on (09) 243 0850 and press option 1. You can also email us at support@halonetworks.nz for any non-urgent issues.