How much you get
Home battery storage
$300 per kWh installed, capped at 50% of total cost.
Stacks with solar
Solar and battery are separate HRSP line items, each capped at $5,000, so installing both in Timmins can net a combined $10,000 in rebates. See the solar rebate page for the pairing.
Local reliability context
Hydro One's own infrastructure reporting has named Timmins specifically in a roughly $80 million reliability investment and a new transmission line connecting to the Porcupine Transformer Station near the city, a sign the grid here gets more utility attention than a typical southern Ontario suburb.
How to claim it
- Get a quote for your battery system's kWh capacity and total cost
- Decide whether to pair it with a solar install for the combined rebate
- Complete the Save on Energy pre-installation application
- Installation is completed by a qualified installer
- Post-installation application submitted for the rebate cheque
Finding an installer in Timmins
We're still building our verified installer network in Timmins, so we don't have profiles to show you here yet. Browse our full directory of vetted installers across Ontario instead — several serve the broader Northeastern Ontario region.
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Why rural feeders make this a different conversation in Timmins
Timmins isn't served by a city-run utility. Hydro One covers it, the same as most of rural and northern Ontario, and Hydro One has singled the area out for a roughly $80 million reliability upgrade tied to a new transmission line feeding the Porcupine Transformer Station. That's not a hypothetical concern. TimminsToday has reported outages knocking out power to hundreds of customers at a time in outlying areas like Connaught and along Highway 11 near Nellie Lake, the kind of long rural feeder line that takes longer to patrol and repair than a compact urban grid. A battery sized for fridge, furnace fan, and well pump covers exactly that gap between when the line goes down and when a crew reaches it.
None of that changes the rebate math: $300 per kWh, capped at 50% of cost, same as anywhere else in Ontario. What it changes is the case for buying one in the first place. In a lot of Ontario cities a battery is mostly about shaving peak demand or extending solar into the evening; in outlying Timmins it's closer to genuine storm insurance. The city's own Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan, filed under the national Partners for Climate Protection program, treats distributed generation and storage as a small but real piece of cutting the town's mining-heavy emissions profile. Homeowner batteries fit that goal even though they're not the plan's centerpiece.
Common questions
How much is the battery storage rebate in Timmins?
Up to $5,000, calculated as $300 per kWh of installed capacity and capped at 50% of total project cost. That's the standard province-wide HRSP rate. Pair it with solar and the combined ceiling reaches $10,000.
Is a battery actually useful here, or is it just a rebate grab?
Given Hydro One's own $80 million reliability spend around the Porcupine Transformer Station and TimminsToday's coverage of repeat rural outages along Highway 11 and in Connaught, a battery in Timmins is doing real work, not just chasing an incentive. Long single-feeder lines in outlying areas take longer to patch than a dense city grid, so the coverage a battery buys you tends to matter more here than in southern Ontario suburbs.
Does the battery rebate stack with the solar rebate in Timmins?
Yes. They're separate HRSP line items, each capped at $5,000, so a household doing both can land a combined $10,000. Timmins' solar resource is the weakest of any city we track (3.43 peak sun hours a day), so run the numbers on your own roof before assuming the pairing pencils out the same way it would further south.
Next steps
View all Timmins rebate programs → or check the official Home Renovation Savings Program site → for the current source of truth. You can also browse the Ontario hub for other cities.