For apartment buildings, stores, shops, farms and industrial sites across Northern Ontario. We model your own interval data, stack the federal tax credit, the Save on Energy incentive and the fast write-offs, and hand you the payback building by building, in writing, before you commit to a thing.
Real loads, real bills, real decisions
Commercial solar isn't a big house. The bill is built differently, the incentives are different, and the decision usually goes past one person: an owner, a property manager, an accountant, sometimes a board. We build the numbers for all of them.
Solar cuts kilowatt-hours. Batteries cut kilowatts.
The power you use, priced by the kWh. Solar on your roof displaces it directly, hour by hour.
Larger accounts pay for their highest draw in the month. One cold morning with everything starting at once can set it. Net-metering credits don't touch demand charges; a battery that shaves the peak does.
Often the biggest line. Most businesses pay it per kWh, so solar reduces it with every kWh it displaces.
Sites averaging over 1 MW of peak demand (over 500 kW for manufacturing and greenhouses) can opt into Class A and pay Global Adjustment on their share of Ontario's top five peak hours. Cutting load in those hours with storage can be worth a lot.
We start with your utility's interval data (15-minute or hourly), not your monthly total, because that's where the demand peaks and the time-of-day prices live. Then we model solar and storage against your actual rate class.
Sources: Ontario Energy Board, net metering (credits apply to consumption charges, not demand); IESO, Global Adjustment Class A eligibility. Checked November 7, 2026.
The Save on Energy solar incentive only pays systems run as load displacement, and it needs pre-approval before any purchase order. Net metering pays credits instead. We model your data both ways and show you which wins, in dollars. The side-by-side is here.
Designed, engineered, permitted and installed
Measure, model, approve, then build
See what that looks like: a sample ROI report, including the CCA schedule.
If the business is a taxable Canadian corporation (or a REIT), new solar panels and fixed battery storage installed in Canada can qualify for the Clean Technology Investment Tax Credit: up to 30% of the capital cost, refundable. The full 30% requires meeting the federal prevailing-wage and apprenticeship rules; otherwise it is 20%. Sole proprietors and individuals aren't on CRA's list of who can claim it; they still get the depreciation.
Not that we can find as of November 2026. The Save on Energy Retrofit program pays for rooftop and parking-canopy solar run as load displacement. Battery storage can still count toward the federal tax credit and the accelerated write-off, and it is often what makes demand charges come down.
No. We build the incentives into the payback the way your accountant tells us they apply to your business, and we show every assumption in the report. Your accountant has the final word on the tax credit and depreciation.
We'll show you what solar and storage would do for your business, which incentives apply, and the year it pays for itself. No pressure, no sales script. 249-878-5651 · info@honeybeesolar.ca
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