Neighbours wired this country. Now the sun does.
When the grid wouldn't reach the farms, Mayerthorpe's families built the lines themselves — the Mayerthorpe REA has been member-owned since 1948. Solar is the same idea, one roof on: make your own power and stop renting it. Rooftop and ground-mount systems, master-electrician installs, full net metering whether you're on FortisAlberta or the REA.
Good sun where farm meets forest.
Mayerthorpe sits where the open farmland gives way to the boreal edge, and the cleared yards and quarters around it catch plenty of sun — long northwest summer days that run an array late into the evening. Cold weather only helps, since panels convert more efficiently the colder they get.
What carries the math is the bill. Rural power costs more to deliver than city power, so every kilowatt-hour you make on your own roof is worth more in Mayerthorpe than the same panel would save in Edmonton.
Plainly priced.
No fine print. On a typical build the cash works out to $2.80 a watt, with a small per-watt premium on the smallest systems, where fixed costs land on fewer panels. Quotes are sized to a full year of your actual bills.
How you pay for it.
Paying cash gets the lowest price, though nobody has to hand it over up front. Whichever route you choose, you own the system outright, with a critter guard fitted to the array and our lifetime leak-proof roof guarantee in writing.
Paid outright — the least the system ever costs and the quickest to pay back.
Financeit fronts the whole thing; the monthly usually comes in under your power bill.
Fold it into a mortgage refinance or HELOC, where the interest sits cheapest.
Fortis in town, the REA on the land.
Here's the local detail. In the Town of Mayerthorpe your wires are FortisAlberta's. But this is co-op country: out on the surrounding farms the lines belong to the Mayerthorpe REA — the member-owned rural electrification association the community founded in 1948, which FortisAlberta now operates under contract. Either way, your micro-generation application goes to whoever holds your service, and we file it for you.
Owns the poles and meter on Mayerthorpe town lots.
Member-owned co-op lines, operated by Fortis under contract.
Net metering is one provincial rule on either: a two-way meter, a credit for every kilowatt-hour you export, carried twelve months. The retail side is open — keep whichever power retailer you like.
Mayerthorpe and the co-op country.
Town of Mayerthorpe
Established streets with open yards — FortisAlberta-connected rooftop work on most of the housing stock.
Lac Ste. Anne County farms
Cleared quarters with good open exposure, ideal for a ground-mount — usually on Mayerthorpe REA lines, which we file with directly.
Sangudo, Rochfort Bridge & Cherhill
Communities down the highway — rooftop in the hamlet, ground-mount on the acreage.
Greencourt, Blue Ridge & the corridor
Acreages toward Whitecourt — the same work, the same standard, the same crew.
Battery & EV, briefly.
Co-op country is rural country, and these lines drop more often than city ones — wind, snow and the occasional summer storm. Solar on its own shuts off in an outage for safety; paired with an EP Cube battery the house keeps running, with automatic cutover in under 20 milliseconds.
Whole-home backup that holds steady through an outage and keeps the day's sun on tap after dark.
A 40A or 48A charger — run the daily drive on sunshine instead of fuel.
What homeowners say.
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.
So thrilled with this company! Our system was installed over a year ago and it was the best decision we ever made.
The entire process was completed in a timely and efficient manner.
Solar in Mayerthorpe, answered.
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Mayerthorpe's families built their own lines once. Solar is the modern version — your roof, your power, your bill at zero. Find out what the real numbers look like at your address.
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