Solar installer, Powell River
Solar Energy
Custom solar solutions designed for your home or business.
Specializing In
Grid Tied
Custom-designed solar systems that work with your existing BC Hydro connection to help reduce electricity costs. Whether you're upgrading an existing home, planning new construction, or looking to increase solar production, each system is designed around your energy needs. Under BC Hydro's applicable net metering program, surplus electricity can be exported to the grid for credits toward your electricity bill.
Hybrid solar with Battery Storage
Custom-designed solar systems that combine grid connectivity with battery storage for greater energy independence and backup power. Store excess solar production for use in the evening, during peak demand, or when the grid fails. Whether you're looking to reduce electricity costs, improve energy resilience, or keep essential circuits running during an outage, each system is tailored to your property's energy needs.
Off-Grid
Reliable, standalone solar power systems designed for properties without a utility connection or those looking to operate independently of the grid. Combining solar panels, battery storage, and appropriately sized inverters, each system is designed around your energy consumption, seasonal conditions, and backup power requirements. Ideal for remote homes, cabins, and properties where dependable, self-sufficient power is essential.
Site Orientation & Production
Every property is different, so every solar system should suit its specific needs. We provide preliminary estimates using satellite imagery and your electricity bills, along with initial site assessments to evaluate solar potential and project viability. Our approach is straightforward and pressure-free, giving you an honest assessment of your property's potential energy production, expected savings, and whether solar is the right investment for you.
Permits, inspection and interconnection
We guide you through permits, available rebates, and required inspections, making the process straightforward from start to finish.
Monitoring Handover
We guide you through monitoring apps, your system safety features and where everything is installed so you have peace of mind and control over your investment.
Warranty and Rebates
Warranty
- Each system we install has a guaranteed 1-year installation warranty
- All installed panels have a 25-year warranty
- All batteries installed have a 10- to 15-year warranty
Solar & Battery Rebates
- Up to $5000 in solar PV systems
- Up to $1500 in eligible battery storage paired with solar
- PST exempt on certain solar equipment
Recent install
11 kW grid-tied solar system
Solar Energy. An 11 kW grid-tied solar system to cut power bills: 22 Longi 500 W panels, each paired with an Enphase IQ8AC microinverter, on Fastrack mounting rails.
Enphase is named here because it is the equipment on this job, not as a certification.
Offset estimate coming soon.
- 11 kW grid-tied system
- 22 × Longi 500 W panels
- 22 × Enphase IQ8AC microinverters
- Fastrack mounting rails
- Offset estimate coming soon
Photo-to-job matching is still unconfirmed with Mitch; both photographs were supplied with this job.
Clear from the first call
How a job goes
Call or write
Say what you need, where the property is, and anything you already know about the panel or access. Photos help.
Site visit and quote
Mitch looks at the panel, the roof or the space, and what the house actually runs. The quote says what the work includes before it starts.
Permit and install
Permits are pulled where the work needs one. The install is scheduled around ferries and the jobs already booked.
Inspection and handover
The work is inspected where required, then walked through with you: what was done, where the shutoffs are, how to read the app if there is one.
Does solar make sense on the BC coast with all the cloud?
Yes, with honest sizing. A coastal array produces most of its year in spring and summer and much less in December. A grid-tied system banks the summer surplus against the winter through net metering; an off-grid system has to be sized for the dark months.
Do I need a battery with solar?
Not for a grid-tied system. Without a battery, a grid-tied array shuts down in an outage for safety. If keeping the lights on through outages is the point, a battery is what delivers it.
What is a microinverter and why use one?
A microinverter sits under each panel and converts its power individually, so a shaded or snowy panel does not drag the whole string down. The recent 11 kW install used one per panel for that reason.
Can my panel handle solar?
The load calculation and the available breaker space decide. If the panel is full or undersized, a panel upgrade is scoped with the solar so there is one job and one inspection.