A solar plan for Devon, drawn the way the town was.
Devon was laid out on paper before a single house went up. We work the same way here: a clean plan for your roof, your FortisAlberta bill and the Devon CEIP, then an install handled by our crew supervised by a Master Electrician.
Why a Devon roof is a good place to put panels.
Devon sits on a south-facing bench above the North Saskatchewan River, and the town was platted with generous lots and wide, curving crescents. That means a lot of the housing stock here has real roof area to work with and decent exposure once you clear the mature trees the town is known for.
The climate does the rest. Central Alberta runs near 2,300 hours of sun a year, and the cold actually helps — solar panels are electronics, and they put out a little more on a bright, sharp winter day than on a hazy hot one. The short December days are handled by net metering, which we cover in Plan 03.
Sized against your real usage, most Devon homes we design land at a $0 target annual power bill. How solar holds up through an Alberta winter →
Smaller 3–6 kW arrays run a bit higher per watt because the fixed costs spread over fewer panels. Your number depends on roof and bill size. Run the savings calculator →
The Devon CEIP — solar paid back on your tax bill.
The Town of Devon launched its residential Clean Energy Improvement Program in January 2022. It is property-assessed financing: the Town funds the work and you repay it as a line on your annual property tax bill rather than through a bank loan.
A few things make it worth a look. It can cover up to 100% of a solar project at a competitive fixed rate the municipality sets (it has typically sat in the roughly 3–5% range), over terms up to 20 years. Because it is tied to the property, the balance transfers with the home if you sell, and approval leans on your tax and mortgage history rather than a credit score.
Funding and exact terms change, and intake can open and close, so confirm the current numbers before you plan around them. We file the CEIP paperwork with you as part of the install.
Confirm current rate, terms and intake on the Town of Devon CEIP page. Prefer cash or a HELOC? Compare options on our financing page.
Who the wires belong to, and how you get paid for sun.
The distribution utility — the poles, the wires, the meter — in Devon is FortisAlberta. Not EPCOR, not ATCO. Fortis is who processes your micro-generation application and swaps in the bi-directional meter that lets your roof export.
The energy charge itself is separate. Alberta is deregulated, so you can sign with any competitive retailer, or sit on the default Rate of Last Resort, which replaced the old Regulated Rate Option on January 1, 2025. Your retailer choice does not change how solar is credited.
Credit works through Alberta's Micro-Generation Regulation: the surplus your roof sends to the grid is credited back at the retail rate — effectively net metering. The summer you bank rolls forward to offset the dark months, which is how a well-sized system lands near $0 over the year.
On paper there is a Town of Devon permit and a building permit where it applies, plus the FortisAlberta interconnection. We pull and file all of it. How Alberta net metering works, step by step →
Devon by neighbourhood, the way the plan reads.
Named after the Devonian rock where Leduc No. 1 struck oil in 1947, the town was built by Imperial Oil from 1948 to house the field's workers — a true new town with a planned core, curved crescents and a tree canopy that is now decades deep. Here is how the layout shapes a roof.
Mary's Court / the original core 01
The 1948 planned heart of town. Compact lots and mature trees mean a shading check comes first — DS3 microinverters keep one shaded panel from dragging the array.
Erichsen 02
Established streets with a mix of roof pitches and orientations. Most homes here are good candidates once we map the sun path across the day.
Highwood 03
Newer building stock with larger, cleaner rooflines — the kind of unbroken south slope that suits a bigger 7–15 kW system.
Riverview Estates 04
Up near the river valley edge. Generous lots and modern roofs, with the odd view-line tree worth working around in the design.
The newer edges 05
Devon's recent infill and edge subdivisions bring wide, simple rooflines that are some of the easiest in town to design around.
Out toward the garden 06
Acreage and edge properties north toward the Devonian Botanic Garden often have ground-mount room when a roof is not ideal.
Battery and EV charging, in brief.
Battery backup
An EP Cube whole-home battery rides through an outage and stores the day's surplus for the evening. Useful on the river-valley edge where a storm can drop a line.
Battery details →EV charging
Wallbox Pulsar Plus, installed: 40A at $3,499 or 48A at $3,999. Pair it with the array and a lot of your driving runs straight off your own roof.
EV charger details →What homeowners say about Stellar Upgrades
What I appreciated most was their transparent pricing and honest advice. They didn't try to sell me a generic package; instead, they provided a personalized design based on my actual utility bills.
We installed our solar system almost two years ago, and it's performing exactly the same as day one. The company actually called us after two years just to check if everything was still working properly.
Hey if you are going solar I highly recommend this company as it's not here to just take my money and actually help me save money on my bills.
Free assessment for Devon homes
A 15-minute look at your roof, your FortisAlberta bill and the Devon CEIP — plain math, and we'll say so if solar doesn't pencil out.
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Official Devon solar resources
We would rather you check the facts than take our word for them. Here are the primary sources for Devon's CEIP, FortisAlberta interconnection and Alberta's rules — alongside our own guides.
Let's draw the plan for your roof.
Book a 15-minute assessment and we'll size a system against your real FortisAlberta bill, then lay out what the Devon CEIP does to the numbers. No pressure, and an honest answer if it doesn't make sense for your home.
- Panel & electrical review at your home
- Roof orientation & shading map for your street
- System sized on your real Fortis usage
- CEIP vs. cash vs. $0-down, side by side