How much you get
The net-metering tradeoff
You can't take this rebate and also sign a net-metering agreement with your local utility. The rebate is for "load displacement" — using the power you generate yourself, not exporting surplus.
How to claim it
- Confirm eligibility via a quick form
- Select a contractor and get written pre-installation approval
- Installation is completed
- Contractor handles utility interconnection approval
- Rebate arrives after documentation is submitted
Solar installers in Brampton
Real companies based in Brampton, pulled from their current Google reviews. We're not paid to list anyone here.
Common questions
Is the Brampton solar rebate different from what's advertised online?
No, and this trips people up: it's the Home Renovation Savings Program, a provincial rebate of $1,000 per kW installed capped at 50% of project cost, up to $5,000 for solar. Brampton doesn't run its own separate cash rebate on top of that. What is local is net metering, which goes through Alectra, not Queen's Park, so confirm current export credit terms with them before sizing a system.
Is solar worth it in Brampton?
Brampton's five-year average (2020-2024) is 3.86 peak sun hours a day, squarely in the middle of southern Ontario's range. Without a rebate, payback typically runs 10–15 years depending on system size and your local electricity rates.
Alectra's scale means process, not extra rebate money
The old Brampton Hydro hasn't billed anyone since 2017, when it merged with PowerStream, Enersource, and several other GTA utilities to form Alectra Utilities. That history has no bearing on the solar rebate amount above — it's set provincially — but it does affect the net metering side: Alectra sets its own credit rate and carryover rules for power your system exports, separate from anything Queen's Park controls, and being part of a utility that size generally means a more standardized (if not necessarily faster) approval process than a small single-city utility runs.
Brampton's sun hours in context
3.86 peak sun hours and 13.88 MJ/m² of daily radiation, averaged across 2020-2024, puts Brampton right in line with the rest of the GTA — there's no meaningful sun-hour disadvantage to installing here versus a neighbouring city. The number that actually moves your payback timeline more is your roof's pitch and shading, not which side of the Alectra service area you're on.
Peel's own energy office, not just Alectra
Brampton is one of the founding partners behind the Centre for Community Energy Transformation, a non-profit the city built jointly with Mississauga, Caledon, and the Region of Peel specifically to help homeowners navigate retrofits and rebates without relying on an installer's own pitch. The city's Community Energy and Emissions Reduction Plan is the document that set the targets CCET now works toward. For the utility side of a solar install — interconnection, net metering forms — Alectra's own site has the current paperwork.
Next steps
View all Brampton rebate programs → or check the official Home Renovation Savings Program site → for the current source of truth.