Solar rebates and incentives in Canada.

Micro-generation lets you offset usage and earn export credits at your retailer's energy rate. Alberta's deregulated market means credit value varies by retailer and plan, so retailer choice matters. Calgary and Edmonton add CEIP financing.

BC Hydro net metering credits exports against your bill, trued up annually; net excess at year-end is paid at a set per-kWh price, so systems are sized to annual load. BC Hydro also offers a solar and battery rebate (up to $10,000 combined), and CleanBC adds income-qualified home-energy rebates.

Manitoba Hydro uses net billing, not net metering, and says so itself: you generate for your own use and sell the surplus for a monetary credit rather than banking kilowatt-hours. Exports are bought at a posted excess energy price of $0.07173 per kWh, in effect until 31 March 2027, against a residential energy charge of 9.970 cents per kWh effective 1 January 2026, so a kilowatt-hour used in the home is worth more than one exported. That export price is reset each year and has ranged from $0.02403 to $0.07173 since 2020, so the current figure is the high end of its own history rather than a fixed rate. Generators must be under 100 kW. The residential basic charge is $9.84 a month, with a further $9.84 on a service over 200 amps. Manitoba Hydro is the sole electricity supplier in the province, so these terms apply throughout Manitoba.

NB Power offers residential net metering with bank-and-roll credits: surplus kWh carry forward month to month to offset later use, trued up annually. A low-competition market with real, proven demand.

Newfoundland Power and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro both run genuine net metering: within a billing month, generation is credited in kilowatt-hours at the rate for the customer's own class of service, capped at the energy the utility supplied that month, and any surplus banks forward. Banked credits are settled once a year at a wholesale figure rather than at retail. Both tariffs carry the same trigger: availability will be closed once the provincial aggregate net metering capacity of 5.0 MW has been met. Neither utility publishes the remaining headroom, and NL Hydro's public net metering page never mentions the cap, so a homeowner cannot learn from it that the programme can close. Systems are limited to 100 kW and must be designed not to exceed the premises' annual energy needs. Newfoundland Power's island residential energy charge is 15.587 cents per kWh; NL Hydro serves Labrador directly at 3.154 cents per kWh on the Labrador Interconnected system, low enough that a rooftop system does not pay back there whatever the net metering terms say.

The Northwest Territories programme is genuine net metering: a customer receives a credit in kilowatt-hours equal to the excess energy, valued at the full retail rate, and unused credits reset to zero at the end of March each year. It is run jointly by three distributors and which one you apply to depends on where you live: the Northwest Territories Power Corporation takes applications for the communities it serves directly, including Fort Smith and Inuvik, Naka Power (Yellowknife) bills Yellowknife, and Naka Power (NWT) handles Hay River from an office in town. NTPC generates the power in all three cases, so the plant behind your meter and the company that bills you are usually not the same organisation. Installations are limited to a rated capacity generally not exceeding 15 kW, but the binding constraint is capacity, not size: NTPC publishes a Renewable Microgrid Capacity by Community schedule setting the intermittent renewable capacity allowed per community and the capacity still available, and several communities show none, so headroom must be confirmed first. Whether a community runs on hydro or on isolated diesel decides the rest: Yellowknife (Snare and Bluefish), Hay River and Fort Smith (Taltson) are hydro-served and do not qualify for the Arctic Energy Alliance solar rebate, which is reserved for non-hydro communities, while Inuvik is on thermal generation.

Nova Scotia's arrangement is statutory rather than regulatory. Section 7 of the Electricity Act (2025, c. 18, Sch.) lets a Nova Scotia Power customer install a renewable low-impact generator or storage device of 27 kW or less as of right, with no requirement to join any utility programme, no application and no fee. Nova Scotia Power must buy the excess at a rate equivalent to the rate the customer pays, up to that customer's total usage in a calendar year, and owes nothing for generation above annual consumption, so a year's own consumption is the binding constraint on sizing. Surplus kilowatt-hours bank and apply to the next bill. The residential energy rate is 19.128 cents per kWh as of 1 May 2026. The regulator is the Nova Scotia Energy Board, not the former Utility and Review Board. Six municipally owned utilities, Antigonish and Lunenburg among them, sit outside Nova Scotia Power and run their own connection process.

Qulliq Energy Corporation is the only generator and distributor in Nunavut, running 25 stand-alone diesel plants in 25 communities with no interconnection and no backup grid. Its net metering programme is genuine 1:1: electricity generated is measured against electricity consumed and the bill is calculated from the net total, with excess generation credits reset on 31 March each year. The residential non-government rate is 74.94 cents per kWh, so every offset kilowatt-hour carries that value. The programme is capped and narrowly scoped: system capacity must not exceed 15 kW AC, eligibility covers residential customers plus two municipal accounts per hamlet, QEC sets a community limit on total net metered power, and generation on a distribution feeder section cannot exceed 7 percent of that section's annual peak load. Because each community is its own grid, headroom is community-specific, and QEC advises customers not to buy a system before their application is approved.

Net metering credits exported solar kWh-for-kWh at the retail rate, carried up to 12 months, with no cash payout for annual excess. Time-of-use pricing makes self-consumption and storage more valuable.

Prince Edward Island runs genuine 1:1 net metering, set by section 13 of the Renewable Energy Act: the kilowatt-hours a customer supplies are subtracted from the kilowatt-hours delivered, and a monthly surplus is credited to the account in kilowatt-hours. Those credits hold no cash value, and on 31 October each year any credits outstanding from the preceding calendar year expire unless the net metering agreement sets another compliant date. Generators are capped at 100 kW, and installations of 30 kW and larger may need three-phase service. Two utilities apply the same rule separately: Maritime Electric across the Island, and the City of Summerside's own electric utility within Summerside. Both charge 17.84 cents per kWh on the first 2,000 kWh of a billing period and 14.23 cents above that, effective 1 August 2026, and a net metering customer pays one service charge even though two meters are installed.

Hydro-Québec's option d'autoproduction is 1:1 net metering in kilowatt-hours: surplus kWh enter a banque de surplus and are deducted from later consumption at the customer's own tariff prices, and article 2.50 of the 2026 tariff keeps the bill from going negative. The bank is zeroed every 24 months, on 31 March of an even year, and article 2.51 credits any remaining balance to the account at the average cost of supply, 4.730 cents per kWh, rather than paying it out. Self-generation is capped at 1,000 kW. Residential Tarif D is a two-tier volumetric rate, not time-of-use: 7.065 cents per kWh on the first block (40 kWh times the days in the period) and 11.142 cents on the rest. Six municipalities run their own distributors (Sherbrooke, Saguenay's Jonquière borough, Alma, Magog, Baie-Comeau and Westmount) and are not on this arrangement, as is part of Saint-Hyacinthe, served by the Coopérative d'électricité de Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

Saskatchewan's programme is named net metering but works as net billing, so read the mechanism rather than the name. SaskPower credits exports at 7.5 cents per kWh, guaranteed until 31 March 2029, against a residential energy charge of 15.476 cents per kWh effective 1 February 2026; credits offset consumption charges only, never the basic monthly charge or taxes, and are never paid out in cash or transferred. Projects run up to 100 kW DC per meter. Two cities keep their own utilities. Saskatoon Light & Power pays 8.25 cents per kWh to applicants after 26 November 2025, against a 17.02 cent retail energy charge, with the earlier 1:1 rate of $0.114846 surviving only for grandfathered enrollees; it serves the pre-1958 city boundary, while SaskPower serves areas annexed since. Swift Current Light & Power banks a dollar credit at 7.5 cents per kWh against a 17.024 cent retail rate.

A new applicant in Yukon cannot join. Government of Yukon micro-generation programme intakes have been paused for all communities since December 2023, while the government and the utilities assess what upgrades the grid needs to absorb more renewable generation; the page carrying that notice was last modified 22 January 2026. Becoming a micro-generation client requires a signed micro-generation interconnection and operating agreement with the utility, so a new installation today receives nothing for electricity exported to the grid, from either the utility or the government. Both utilities are covered: ATCO Electric Yukon serves Whitehorse and Watson Lake and says current restrictions on new distributed energy resource connections reflect the need for technical solutions, and Yukon Energy retails to Dawson City. Existing clients keep an annual Government of Yukon reimbursement each April, capped at 65 percent of the system's modelled annual generation, with no rollover. No reopening date is published.