What does solar actually cost
on a home in Westlock?
No mystery pricing. Below is a plain, itemized look at the numbers on a typical Westlock house — system size, price per watt, what's included, and the payback — the way an honest estimate should read. We're about an hour north of our Edmonton shop on Highway 44, and the price is the same as Edmonton. No travel surcharge.
A sample solar estimate for a Westlock home.
This is the kind of itemized sheet you'd get from us — figured for a fairly common Westlock house with a clear south or west roof. Read every line. Your real number comes from the on-site assessment.
Sample Solar Estimate
Prepared for a typical home · Town of Westlock, ABDistribution: FortisAlberta
Prepared by Stellar Upgrades
Valid as an illustration only
$22,400installed
- LONGi 500W panels with APsystems DS3 microinverters — panel-level monitoring, no single point of failure
- Critter guard around the array so birds and squirrels can't nest underneath
- Lifetime leak-proof roof guarantee on every penetration we make
- Permit pulled and the FortisAlberta micro-generation application and bi-directional meter swap filed for you
- In-house crew, supervised by a Master Electrician — no subcontracted labour
What this estimate includes
- Design, equipment, mounting and full installation labour
- Critter guard and the lifetime leak-proof roof guarantee
- Electrical permit and inspection
- FortisAlberta micro-generation paperwork and the meter swap
What it does not include
- A battery — that's a separate line if you want backup
- Major roof repairs or a re-shingle if yours is near end of life
- A 200A panel upgrade, on the rare home that needs one
- Your monthly retailer and distribution admin charges, which stay on the bill
Three honest ways to pay for it.
No high-pressure financing pitch. Here's how most Westlock homeowners actually cover the cost — pick the one that fits.
Cash
Pay outright and you get roughly a 10% discount versus financed. This is the $2.80/W number on the sheet above, and the fastest payback.
Financeit
Monthly payments through Financeit at a modest markup, nothing down. Many homeowners set the payment near what they were already sending the utility.
Mortgage roll-in
Fold the cost into a refinance or HELOC for the cheapest money. Bring your own financing and you still get the cash $2.80/W price.
Some Alberta municipalities also run Clean Energy Improvement Program (CEIP) financing, repaid on your property tax bill. We can't confirm the Town of Westlock offers it — check the official CEIP program locations list, or see our financing page for the options we do offer.
Who runs your wires, and how the credits work.
The part most companies skip. In Westlock the distribution utility isn't ATCO or EPCOR — here's exactly who handles what.
- Your distributor
- The poles, wires and meter in Westlock belong to FortisAlberta. The Town holds an electrical distribution franchise agreement with Fortis (the municipal franchise fee was 16.25% in 2024). Your micro-generation application and bi-directional meter swap go through FortisAlberta — and we file all of it for you.
- Your retailer
- Alberta's retail market is deregulated. The default is the Rate of Last Resort, which replaced the old RRO on January 1, 2025. You can stay on it or shop a competitive retailer — net metering works either way.
- Net metering
- Under Alberta's Micro-Generation Regulation, the surplus your panels send back in summer earns retail-rate credits that offset your winter draw. Sized right, a Westlock home zeroes out the energy portion of the bill over the year. How net metering works →
- Cold & sun
- Westlock gets about 2,300 hours of sun a year, and the cold actually helps — panels run more efficiently at low temperatures. Long June-to-August days bank the credits that carry you through the short ones. Solar in Alberta winters →
Built for a farming service town.
Westlock is a town of about 5,100 people and the service centre for Westlock County — roughly 85 km, about an hour, north of our Edmonton shop on Highway 44. It's a grain and farming town with deep roots; the old Westlock grain elevators and heritage centre are a local landmark, and the Rotary Spirit Centre is where the community gathers. The name itself is a mashup of two early homesteaders, Westgate and Lockhart.
In town we install on the older core streets and the newer subdivisions alike — rooftop solar, sized off your actual FortisAlberta usage. Out in Westlock County, on the farms and acreages, we see a lot of ground-mount systems. When you've got open ground, a ground mount can face true south at the ideal tilt no matter which way the house points, which often beats a roof. Shop, garage and barn roofs work too.
It's a longer drive for us than a job in the city, and we'll say so plainly: same crew, same pricing as Edmonton, no travel surcharge. The hour up Highway 44 is on us.
Battery and EV charging, while we're there.
Add a battery
Westlock County winds and the odd rural outage make backup worth a look. A home battery keeps your essentials running and stores cheap daytime solar for the evening. We'll spec it to your panel and your priorities, not upsell a wall of cells you won't use.
See if a battery fits →Charge an EV
A Level 2 charger in the garage tops the car overnight, and on a sunny day you're charging on your own panels for next to nothing. We can rough-in the wiring during the solar install so it's ready when the vehicle is.
EV charger packages →Reviews from across Alberta.
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