Lightyears Solar

Welcome to our two new Lightyears team members, Jin Yong (Julian) Lee and Debra Mei. Julian brings deep experience in corporate, commercial and project development across Asia Pacific and Europe and a passion for environmental law to his role as Corporate Counsel, while Debra is our new Financial Accountant, and has more than a decade of experience in financial management, auditing, and client support and is a Chartered Accountant.

We’re delighted to have you both on the team.

Read all our team bios at https://www.lightyearssolar.co.nz/meet-the-lightyears-solar-team

Christmas might have come and gone but we're still getting exciting parcels, and for us, that means boxes full of solar farm supplies for the project we're just starting in Canterbury, on behalf of MainPower.

We're the lead contractor for the project, and the site will transform over the next few months into a 7.3 MW solar farm, adding to the renewable energy mix in North Canterbury.

We are hiring!

Come and join us as we bring solar power to more communities around the country. We’re seeking a Solar Operations and Maintenance Assistant to provide operational support to keep our solar farms running smoothly.

This is a newly created role with lots of variety and potential. You’ll be based in our Auckland office but travelling a lot to our solar farms across New Zealand.

Find the job on Seek: https://www.seek.co.nz/job/89666536?ref=search-standalone&type=promoted&origin=jobTitle =ab2dc44cde0c807baa3f5bf2d695c9676e9df0b5

Yesterday marked the official summer solstice for Aotearoa, which is the longest day of the year. This means lots of sunshine hours, and lots of renewable energy being sent into local power networks from our solar farms.

It's a good note to end our year on, and tomorrow afternoon our office will close the doors for 2025, reopening on Monday 5 January. Our construction teams will also be back then too, working hard on site.

We’d like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday and a great start to 2026.