Incentives and Grants

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Some innovative ideas relating to solar generation are:

• River science monitoring stations (air temperature, water temperature, salinity, time, date, daylight hrs, and other observations).
• Solar/Electrical boat motor concepts
• In-house concrete heating concepts
• Recreational lake water purifiers
• Carbon capture devices
• Merging solar panels with building materials to create architectural concepts

Grants and Incentives

This page contains general information and links to municipal, provincial, federal, and applicable international incentive programs. We will update the programs as we become aware of them. If you would like to submit funding, granting, or incentive program details, please email them to us here after reading through these resources.

Utility Incentives

• ACE Green Generator Program
• EQUS Micro-Generating Incentive Program
• Park Power
• SOLARMAX Power Inc.
• Spot Power

Municipalities and Counties

• MCCAC Solar for Schools Program
• NEW (Starts January 2019) Community Generation Program.
• NEW (June 2018) City of Edmonton Residential PV Incentive ($0.15/Watt)
• City of Edmonton Building Energy Benchmarking Program (Application Deadline September 30)
• City of Edmonton EcoCity Grant
• Town of Banff Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Production Incentive
• City of Medicine Hat, HAT Smart Program
• Starland County ($0.20/W Installed available to residents of Starland County)
• Municipal Climate Change Action Centre Programs

Province of Alberta

• Residential and Commercial Solar Program
• Business, Non-Profit, and Institutional Energy Savings Program
• Energy Efficiency Alberta Website (Register here for free energy efficiency upgrades)
• Alberta On-Farm Solar Photovoltaics Program
• Farm Energy and Agri-Processing Program (FEAP) (Combines the discontinued On-Farm Energy Management, and Accelerating Agricultural Innovation (Stream C) programs)
• Alberta Indigenous Climate Leadership Grant Programs (full list)
• Alberta Indigenous Solar Program
• Alberta Indigenous Community Energy Program
• Alberta Municipal Solar Program (AMSP)
• Alberta Non-Profit Energy Efficiency Transition (NEET) Program

Government of Canada

• Canada’s New Accellerated Capital Cost Allowence (Helps Businesses Go Solar)
  • “Full Expensing for Clean Energy Equipment” enables renewable energy and energy conservation assets (such as solar energy, battery storage and electric vehicle charging infrastructure) to be depreciated in full in the year that they are brought in service. Accelerating depreciation in this way, defers taxable income to later years. As a result, the business case and access to finance is improved for investments in technologies that produce clean energy or that displace fossil fuels.
• Government of Canada Funding, Grants & Incentives