Solar, all the way up here.
Athabasca was the jumping-off point for the whole north — the Landing where the river highway began. We bring the same idea to your roof: a clean, modern way to get ahead of rising northern power bills. LONGi panels, EP Cube batteries and master-electrician installs, two hours up Highway 2 from our Edmonton shop.
Long northern days do the work.
Don't let the latitude fool you. Athabasca pulls in over 2,300 hours of sunshine a year — on par with Edmonton — and the long northern summer days mean your panels produce for hours on end while the credits build. Cold helps, too: solar panels run more efficiently in low temperatures, so a bright sub-zero day in the boreal is a genuinely productive one.
What makes the math work up here is the bill itself. Northern power carries higher distribution costs than the city, so every kilowatt-hour you generate yourself is worth more in Athabasca than the same panel would save in Edmonton.
It's ATCO Electric up here.
Your wires (distribution) company in Athabasca is ATCO Electric — the utility for north and east-central Alberta. They own the poles and your meter, and they're who we file your micro-generation paperwork with. Alberta's retail side is deregulated, so you keep whichever electricity retailer you like.
Net metering is province-wide and simple: ATCO swaps in a bi-directional meter, every surplus kilowatt-hour you export is credited kWh-for-kWh, and unused credits roll forward for twelve months — banking the long summer surplus to spend across the short days of winter.
Name the wrong utility on the application and it stalls before it starts. We handle the ATCO micro-generation filing end to end.
Home of Canada's open university.
Athabasca thinks ahead — it's the home of Athabasca University, the country's pioneer in open, online education. Solar fits that mindset: a long-horizon investment that quietly pays for itself, raises a home's value, and locks in your energy cost for 25 years and more while grid rates keep climbing. We size every system to your real twelve months of ATCO bills, not a brochure.
What it costs, plainly.
Our cash rate is $2.80 per watt on a typical install; smaller systems cost a little more per watt as the fixed costs spread over fewer panels. Cash earns the best price, but $0-down financing through Financeit, mortgage roll-in and HELOC options are all on the table. Critter guard and a lifetime leak-proof roof guarantee are included.
When the grid blinks, you don't.
Rural northern lines see more frequent and longer outages than the city — winter storms, spring break-up flooding along the river valley, the occasional summer system. Pair your solar with an EP Cube battery and the house switches over automatically in under 20 milliseconds, keeping the heat, fridge and sump pump running while the grid is down. Out here, that energy security is worth as much as the savings.
Town, riverfront and the county.
Town of Athabasca
Established homes above the river and newer streets toward the university — straightforward rooftop work on most of the housing stock.
Riverfront & the valley
Homes along the Athabasca and Tawatinaw. We map the sun path and tree line before we design, and flush-mount to keep the view.
Athabasca County acreages
Open rural land that's ideal for a ground-mount sized to the house, the shop and a well pump together.
Boyle, Colinton, Grassland & Wandering River
Nearby hamlets and farms across the county — rooftop in the village, ground-mount on the quarter.
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