Solar panels in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Prince Albert benefits from Saskatchewan’s exceptional solar irradiance at 1,300 kWh/kW – among the highest in Canada. SaskPower provides electricity with net metering credits at 7.5¢/kWh. While payback is longer than provinces with retail-rate credits (13-17 years), rising SaskPower rates (3.9% increase in 2026) improve the long-term economics.

Prince Albert’s northern location still delivers excellent solar production – more than Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal – thanks to Saskatchewan’s exceptional solar resource.

SaskPower’s net metering program allows residential systems up to 100 kW. Excess energy is credited at 7.5¢/kWh – credits never expire until your account closes.

The current net metering program has been extended to March 31, 2029. Terms after 2029 have not been announced.

There is no provincial solar rebate from SaskPower. The federal Greener Homes programs are now closed.

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Latitude is the first thing people raise about solar in Prince Albert, and the numbers deal with it quickly. At 1,300 kWh per kW a year this is the weakest solar resource of any Saskatchewan city Xolar serves — behind Estevan’s 1,400, Swift Current’s 1,380 and Regina’s 1,340. It is also higher than every single city in Ontario, including Chatham-Kent at 1,210 and Windsor at 1,200. Being the least sunny place in Saskatchewan still puts you ahead of the sunniest place in Canada’s largest province. What being further north does change is the shape of the year rather than its total: long, bright summer days and genuinely short ones in December. In most provinces that would be a problem, because a large summer surplus either lapses or gets sold at a discount before winter arrives. Saskatchewan is the exception. For anyone who joined SaskPower’s net metering programme after November 2019, credits do not expire — so a July overshoot waits until January rather than evaporating. A system Xolar installed in Prince Albert came in at 10.3 kW, which is a statement about one household’s consumption rather than a recommendation for yours.

Prince Albert sits further north than any other Saskatchewan city on this site, and the effect on solar is real but frequently misdescribed. It is not that the annual total is poor. At 1,300 kWh per kW a year, Prince Albert out-produces every city in Ontario, the best of which is modelled at 1,210.

The effect is on the distribution of that production through the year rather than its size. A high latitude means long summer days and short winter ones, so output here is concentrated more heavily into the warmer half of the year than it would be further south. Summer days are longer than in southern Saskatchewan; December days are shorter, the sun sits lower, and a panel spends more of the day at an unfavourable angle.

Two practical consequences follow. The first is that net metering matters more here than in a place with an even spread, because you need credits earned in summer to still be usable against a winter bill. The second is that the winter months are when a northern household’s electricity consumption is highest, and that is exactly when a rooftop array contributes least. Solar is a good match for a Prince Albert home’s annual bill, and a poor match for its January one.

That is an argument for sizing against twelve months of actual consumption rather than against a summer month, and for treating any quote built on peak-season output as incomplete. Payback here runs 13 to 17 years, the same band as Moose Jaw and Yorkton, because the constraint in Saskatchewan is not sunshine but the absence of any residential rebate.

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