You make your own power
Panels offset what you'd buy.
Every kilowatt-hour your panels make either offsets power you'd have bought at the ~19¢/kWh retail rate, or exports to the grid for an even higher 35¢ credit. Either way, it's value back to you.
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Solarbasics.
What rooftop solar actually does for an Alberta home or business, how the savings work under provincial net billing, and how Flux SunWise makes sure you capture the full value every month.
The short version
Solar in Alberta, minus the sales pitch.
Three things to understand before you think about panels. The rest is detail.
Net billing, not net metering
Alberta settles month by month.
Alberta uses monthly net billing. Each billing period your imports and exports are tallied up. Produce more than you use and you're a net exporter; use more and you top up from the grid.
Summer makes, winter takes
Production swings with the seasons.
Long Alberta summer days push you into net export; short winter days pull you back to net import. Systems are sized to offset your full year of usage, so the summer surplus carries the winter shortfall.
The Alberta advantage
35¢/kWh in every net-export month
In any billing month where your panels make more power than your home uses, you're a net exporter and your surplus is credited at 35¢/kWh, Alberta's microgen export rate, more than the ~19¢/kWh of retail power it replaces. Because an exported kilowatt is worth more than the grid power it offsets, systems are sized to offset up to 100% of your annual usage; past roughly 75%, the high export rate is where the return really starts to accelerate. In the months you use more than you make, the power you pull from the grid is just 5.45¢/kWh on Flux Energy's microgen plan, roughly a quarter less than the ~8¢/kWh most Albertans pay today on commodity.
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Months gold tops navy, your panels out-produce your home, are net export, credited at 35¢/kWh. Months navy tops gold, you buy the difference at 5.45¢/kWh. · Alberta Micro-Generation Regulation
What drives your savings
Four levers, one bill.
Solar savings aren't one number. They come from how your system is sized, the premium your exports earn, and how each billing month settles.
System sizing
Sized to offset 100%.
Alberta's micro-generation rules let you size up to 100% of your annual usage, and here you want to. Full offset is the target, not a stretch goal, because every panel toward it keeps earning.
The export premium
Exports out-earn the grid.
Most places size you to self-consume because exports pay pennies. Alberta flips it: at 35¢/kWh, an exported kilowatt is worth more than the ~19¢ of retail power it could have offset. Past roughly 75% of your usage is where that premium makes ROI accelerate.
Monthly net billing
Settled the right way each month.
Net-export months are credited at the 35¢ export rate; net-import months are charged the low 5.45¢ rate. Your bill is tallied per billing period, not once a year.
Flux SunWise
The right rate, automatically.
SunWise settles each billing period on the side that benefits you: the 35¢ export rate in net-export months, the low 5.45¢ import rate in net-import months. No phone calls, no seasonal plan switching.
Already have panels, or thinking about it?
Two ways Flux fits your solar.
Already producing? Put SunWise on your account and start capturing the right rate every month. Not installed yet? Flux Renewables, our sister company, can design and install a system sized for your roof.
Put it into practice
See your solar rate.
60 seconds, no signup. Punch in a typical month and see what SunWise does with it.