Heating Your Home
Rotorua homeowners can access free expert advice and potential grants to improve their home's heating efficiency and air quality through initiatives like Sustainability Options and Warmer Kiwi Homes.
Warmer Kiwi Homes insulation grants
Grants are available via Warmer Kiwi Homes and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) to help homeowners create healthier, warmer homes. These grants:
- Cover 80-90% of the cost of approved insulation and up to 80% of the cost of approved heaters
- Are available to people who own and live in a house built before 2008, and live in a lower-income area or have a Community Services Card
- Promote energy efficiency, energy conservation and the use of energy from renewable sources.
Check your eligibility and get service provider information on the Warmer Kiwi Homes site.
Improving your home's sustainability
You can get a free, in-home consultation to help you make your home healthier, warmer, drier and cheaper to run. Sustainability Options will visit your home and provide independent, qualified advice on a range of efficiency solutions.
Improving your home air quality
Domestic fires are a major cause of poor air quality. This air pollution comes mainly during cold weather as people heat their homes using solid-fuel burners - wood burners, multi burners and open fires. The Rotorua Air Quality Control Bylaw will remove solid fuel burners that are not clean-air approved and help improve our air quality.
Solid and liquid fuel heaters require a building consent to install. This has been introduced to help us combat air pollution by reducing the number of these heaters in Rotorua homes. You can read more about this process on the Minor Building Work section of our website.
You can also look at alternative options to heat your home, including heat pumps, which don't require a building consent to install.
Hot Swap home insulation loans are no longer offered. If you were on the scheme, you can read more about it on the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (BOPRC) website. BOPRC is responsible for managing the region's air quality.