Solar in Stony Plain, painted by the numbers.
A town that put 40-some murals on its downtown walls knows the value of a roof that earns its keep. We design and install solar across Stony Plain, file your FortisAlberta micro-generation paperwork, and pull the permit so the only thing you watch is the meter run backwards.
Roughly 2,300 hours of sun a year, sitting on big new roofs.
Stony Plain runs about 30 to 35 minutes west of Edmonton on Highway 16A, and at this latitude a south-facing roof pulls around 2,300 hours of sunshine annually. Cold helps too: panels are semiconductors, and they put out more on a bright, dry February afternoon than on a hazy July one. The newer subdivisions on the north and west edges of town came with the wide, simple rooflines that make a clean 7–8 kW array straightforward.
A typical cash install here runs about $2.80 per watt on a 7–8 kW system, with most homeowners landing on a 7 to 8 year payback and a target power bill near $0 once net-metering credits are doing their job. We've put up 500+ systems across the region since 2018 on LONGi 500W panels paired with APsystems DS3 microinverters.
Stony Plain offers the Clean Energy Improvement Program.
The Town of Stony Plain takes part in the Clean Energy Improvement Program (CEIP), which is a different animal than a regular loan. It's property-assessed financing: it can cover up to 100% of a solar project, you repay it on your property tax bill over a term up to about 20 years at a low fixed rate, and because the financing is tied to the property rather than to you, it can carry over if you sell.
Terms and intake windows change, so don't take our word for the current rate — check the official program listing on the CEIP program locations page to confirm what's open in Stony Plain right now. If CEIP isn't the right fit, we'll also lay out cash (with a discount), $0-down financing, and a mortgage roll-in at renewal — side by side, on your financing options page.
The distribution utility in Stony Plain is FortisAlberta — not EPCOR, which only runs the wires inside the City of Edmonton, and not ATCO. That matters because your micro-generation application and the bi-directional meter swap go through Fortis. We file that paperwork for you and pull the electrical permit; you don't chase forms.
On the retail side, Alberta is deregulated. If you've never picked a competitive retailer, you're on the province's Rate of Last Resort, the regulated default that replaced the old RRO on January 1, 2025. Either way, solar credits work the same. Under Alberta's Micro-Generation Regulation, the surplus your panels send to the FortisAlberta grid in summer comes back as retail-rate credits that knock down your winter bills. We break down the mechanics in plain language in our guide to how net metering works in Alberta, and the winter question in does solar work in Alberta winters.
From the walkable Old Town core to the lakes on the edge of town.
Stony Plain is home to around 17,000 people, and it wears two faces. There's the older, walkable core around Old Town, where heritage rooflines and the odd mature spruce mean we do a proper shading study and lean on the DS3 microinverters so one shaded panel never drags the rest down. Then there are the newer subdivisions — Westerra, Genesis on the Lakes, Lakestone, Forest Green, High Park, Brickyard, South Park and Glenwood — where big modern roof planes are practically built for a 7–15 kW array.
Out past the subdivisions, plenty of Parkland County acreages around town have the open ground for a ground-mount system, often paired with a battery. Whatever the lot looks like, we design from your actual FortisAlberta usage rather than a generic template.
Two add-ons worth a sentence each.
Battery backup
An EP Cube stores your daytime surplus instead of exporting all of it, and keeps the lights on when a summer storm takes the line down. Handy on the rural edges of town where outages run longer.
Battery details →EV charging
A Wallbox Pulsar Plus runs $3,499 installed for the 40A and $3,999 for the 48A. Charge overnight, or top up off your own solar in the daytime and skip the gas station entirely.
EV charger details →What homeowners say about Stellar Upgrades
They even called us a year after install just to check on the system.
Up to this point we would highly recommend Stellar Upgrades if you are considering solar panels.
The service was excellent, and everything was professional. The quality was good at a reasonable price. My house looks more advanced, and it really makes a difference in appearance.
Book your Stony Plain assessment
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Solar in Stony Plain, answered.
Official Stony Plain solar resources.
Don't take a contractor's word for the rules. Every utility, financing and permit claim on this page comes from these official Town of Stony Plain, CEIP, FortisAlberta and Government of Alberta pages.
Town of Stony Plain
Municipal services, permits and the Town's own programs.
CEIP program locations
Confirm Stony Plain's current Clean Energy Improvement Program terms and intake.
Micro-generation & interconnection
The application and approval process for grid-tied solar on the Fortis grid.
Micro-Generation Regulation
The provincial regulation behind retail-rate net-metering credits.
Rate of Last Resort
The regulated default electricity rate that took over from the RRO in 2025.
Financing options compared
CEIP, cash, $0-down and mortgage roll-in, side by side.
Put your roof to work in the Town of Murals.
A fifteen-minute assessment from the crew that handles the Tri-Region. We'll size it from your actual FortisAlberta bill, lay out CEIP and the other financing routes, and give you the honest payback number.
Your assessment covers a roof and shading review, an electrical-panel check, a system designed from your real usage, and a written financing comparison — no obligation, no hard sell.