How much you get
Peterborough is served by Hydro One for electricity. The province's Home Renovation Savings Program rebates battery storage at $300 per kWh of capacity, capped at 50% of total project cost.
Battery storage rebate
$300/kWh, capped at 50% of cost.
Battery + solar, stacked
Stacks with the solar rebate for a bigger combined project.
A typical household in Peterborough stacking a heat pump with solar or battery can net anywhere from $4,000 to $17,000 in direct HRSP rebates, the same range as elsewhere in Ontario, since this is a provincial program, not a local one.
Financing with Better Homes Peterborough
Up to $50,000 at 4.5%, repaid through your property tax bill
Battery storage is an explicitly eligible upgrade under Better Homes Peterborough, the city's retrofit loan delivered through EnviroCentre. It relaunched February 19, 2026 and runs through March 2029, offering a secured loan of up to $50,000 at 4.5% interest over 15 years through your property tax bill, or an unsecured loan through Kawartha Credit Union. Call 1-888-284-9417 or visit betterhomesptbo.ca.
Battery Storage installers in Peterborough
We haven't independently vetted specific battery storage installers in Peterborough yet, so we're not going to invent names or star ratings for this page. Browse our installer directory to compare local companies yourself, or run the free assessment below and we'll help connect you with someone once we have vetted options in your area.
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Common questions
How much is the battery storage rebate in Peterborough?
Up to $5,000 through the province's Home Renovation Savings Program, calculated as $300 per kWh of battery capacity, capped at 50% of total project cost. It stacks with the solar rebate for up to $10,000 combined.
Does Peterborough have its own battery incentive on top of the provincial rebate?
There's no separate city-run battery rebate, but battery storage is an eligible upgrade under the Better Homes Peterborough loan program, which can finance up to $50,000 of a retrofit project including battery storage.
Peterborough already lived through the worst-case outage scenario
The May 2022 derecho left parts of Peterborough without power, and without reliable internet, for nearly three days, the longest outage the city had seen since the 2003 northeast blackout. An April 2025 ice storm added a repeat performance, cutting power to roughly 63,000 Hydro One customers across the city and county. Neither event was a Peterborough Utilities Commission failure exactly; both were caused by widespread transmission and pole damage that took days to physically repair, which is the scenario a home battery is built for. It can't fix a broken pole, but it keeps a house livable while the pole gets fixed.
Peterborough Utilities Commission still matters here for the boring but necessary parts: net metering paperwork if the battery is paired with solar, and confirming your panel's export capacity before a system is sized. Combine that municipal reality with the PUC's own outage safety page and the city's own climate change action plan, which flags severe storm frequency as a rising local risk, and the pitch for a battery in this specific city writes itself without needing to reach for hypotheticals. It happened twice in three years already. Local coverage from Peterborough Currents on the derecho aftermath is worth a read if you want the specifics of how long restoration actually took, street by street.
Next steps
View all Peterborough rebate programs → or check the official Home Renovation Savings Program site → for the current source of truth.