How much you get
Peterborough's electricity utility is Hydro One, which acquired the former Peterborough Distribution Inc. in 2020. The province's Home Renovation Savings Program rebates solar installs at $1,000 per kW installed, capped at 50% of the total project cost.
Solar panel rebate
$1,000/kW installed, capped at 50% of total cost.
Solar + battery, stacked
Battery storage rebate stacks on top of the solar rebate.
Choose the rebate or net metering — not both
Peterborough homeowners installing solar have to choose between the HRSP solar rebate and net metering through Hydro One. You can't take both on the same system, so run the math on your household's usage pattern before deciding.
Financing with Better Homes Peterborough
Up to $50,000 at 4.5%, repaid through your property tax bill
Solar is an 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, repaid over 15 years through your property tax bill, or an unsecured personal loan through Kawartha Credit Union. Call 1-888-284-9417 or visit betterhomesptbo.ca.
Solar installers in Peterborough
We haven't independently vetted specific solar 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 solar rebate in Peterborough?
Up to $5,000 through the province's Home Renovation Savings Program — calculated as $1,000 per kW installed, capped at 50% of total project cost. If you also install battery storage, the combined solar-plus-battery rebate can reach up to $10,000.
Can I get the solar rebate and net metering at the same time in Peterborough?
No. Peterborough Utilities Commission customers have to choose one or the other on a given system — the HRSP solar rebate or net metering — not both.
Who do I call about net metering credits in Peterborough?
Peterborough Utilities Commission, not the province. PUC is municipally owned and runs its own interconnection process, so the credit rate and how quickly an application clears are set locally rather than through a province-wide rule.
PUC, not Hydro One, decides what your export credits are worth
Peterborough runs its own municipally-owned utility, Peterborough Utilities Commission, which is a bit different from most of the small cities around it that get folded into Hydro One's territory. PUC is also one of Ontario's larger municipal renewable-energy generators in its own right, running hydro, biogas, and solar assets that together power thousands of local homes — so solar isn't a foreign concept to this utility the way it might be elsewhere. The provincial rebate doesn't care either way — it's the same $1,000/kW everywhere in Ontario — but the net metering side of the equation is entirely PUC's call: how much a credit is worth, whether unused credits expire or roll forward, and how quickly they process an interconnection request. A locally-run utility can sometimes move faster on that last one than a larger provincial operator, though that's worth confirming with PUC directly rather than assuming.
Peterborough's sun hours, from five years of real data
Peterborough averages 3.82 peak sun hours a day and 13.74 MJ/m² of daily radiation, based on measured solar data from 2020 through 2024. That sits a bit below the higher-irradiance cities in our southwestern Ontario cluster but well ahead of Ottawa — for a homeowner sizing a system here, it's close enough to the provincial middle that the rebate math and your actual roof orientation will matter more to your payback timeline than the city-to-city difference in sun hours. Peterborough's own Climate Change Action Plan lists rooftop solar among the retrofits it wants to see more of on existing housing stock, not just new builds.
Next steps
View all Peterborough rebate programs → or check the official Home Renovation Savings Program site → for the current source of truth.