Check your roof in 30 seconds and get an honest number. I only call if you ask me to.
Not a single cable touching the roof. I built my own house that way in 2022, and I will set up the ladder and let you climb onto it. That is the standard I stamp on yours. I own the company.
Last month my roof made $236.80 of power. My bill came out to -$109.98. The power company paid me.
This is my own house, not a brochure. A 9.56 kW system on four roof faces. Here is the whole trick.
You sell at~35¢per kWh you export
You buy back at5.90¢per kWh at night
your meter spins backwards
Sell high, buy low, on your own roof.
Straight up: that 35¢ rate comes from a high-export Solar Club plan. I run Rewards Power, and yes, they are my referral partner. The rate is what makes the number this big, so I am telling you plainly rather than burying it. Your own plan sets your own rate.
Swipe sideways, then open one up.
May 5 to Jun 2, 2026
First credit bill
$109.98They owed me
678 kWh sent back to the grid at about 35¢ a kWh.
Power billMay 5 to Jun 2, 2026
678 kWh exported
678 kWh I never used went out to the grid. At the Solar Club export rate, that is what it sold for.
The power I pulled back off the grid at night when the panels were dark, plus the monthly admin charge.
Wires and poles, transmission, and the city access fee. Every house pays these whether it makes its own power or not. Solar does not touch them.
Charges came in under the credit, so the total went negative. A minus on a power bill means they owe you. That is the CR printed on the real one.
Bars are to scale against the credit. Tap a line for what it means.
I am posting every one of these as it lands. December is going to look ugly and I will post that one too.
Already did, actually. Four years of production off my own inverter is up, all 47 months of it. December 2025 made 3 kWh for the entire month. I left it in.
Not a single cable touching the roof. Every wire runs under the array, sized so nothing gets hot. I built my own house that way in 2022 and I will set the ladder up and let you climb it.
Panels make DC. Your house runs on AC. This box does the conversion, and it is the part most likely to need a warranty call, so it goes somewhere I can actually reach.
A labelled, lockable switch beside the meter. One pull and the roof is shut down for the fire department. Every system I build gets one. Your extra power leaves through that meter and you get paid for it.
Solar alone goes dead in a blackout. The battery is the part that keeps your lights on when the grid drops. That is the honest reason to buy one, not the savings.
A 240 volt circuit and a load calculation before anything gets mounted. Plenty of my calls are people who bought the charger first and found out the panel could not feed it.
Got a door-to-door quote? I’ll read the markup line by line, free.
Where the quote money goesTap to open
Hardware. The easiest part to check. I tell you the exact model on the sheet and what that model actually goes for.
My trade, 14 years on the tools. I can tell you in a minute whether the hours on that line are real or padded.
This is the row I look for first. If your quote does not have one, ask them why. A permit is what puts a licensed name on your install and gets it inspected.
It does not disappear, it gets folded into the panel price. I show you where I think it is sitting so you can ask about it yourself.
No 1-800 queue and no hand-off after the deposit. You get me, Dmitry, Master Electrician, 14 years on the tools. My number ends up on your permit.
Read free of charge, no obligation, no email to see the verdict
I flag the missing permit row and any hidden dealer fee
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They almost seemed like family. [...] They went over and above to make our journey into solar a great experience.
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Google review · Cherry Grove 4.5 kW
2026
We were having some ongoing issues with the solar system that another company originally installed [...] Dmitry showed up on time, tracked down the problem quickly [...] Honest guys, great service, and zero BS.
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Google review
June 2026
[...] by the time the job was done, he hadn’t just met my expectations, he’d blown past them. [...] If you’re looking for a solar company you can actually trust, Raydn Renewables is it. Highly recommend!
Keirnen
Google review
June 2026
There can be some unpredictable happenings like in all the trades but you can be sure that Radyn aren’t taking that as a chance for shortcuts. The finished product top to bottom is first class [...] Local is best.
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Google review
July 2026
31,581 kWh, translated
A number that size only means something once you convert it.
Since September 2022, on my own roof
$2,936
a year, at today's rate
One full year, 2025, priced at the 35 cents on my July statement.
$11,053
the whole 31,581 kWh
What that power is worth at today's rate. Not cash in my pocket. The utility has actually paid me $224.08.
25
barrels of oil, matched on carbon
What you would burn to put up the 10.6 tonnes my roof has kept out of the air. Not a claim my roof made oil.
On an average day
Every day of 2023, 2024 and 2025 averaged out, December and snow cover included. Not my best day. Carbon at Alberta's current 335 g per kWh, not the older 490 g table that would have let me print 11.0 kg.
22.5kWh
made, sunrise to sunset
7.5kg
CO2 kept off the Alberta grid
45
trees, doing the same work
While you have had this page open, that same rate has kept 0.0 g of CO2 out of the air.
45 trees is not 45 trees saved. Nothing gets cut down either way. It is how many you would need absorbing carbon all day to match one day of my roof.
The next 21 years Projection, not a record
Everything above this line already happened and I can show you the statements. This part has not happened yet. Here is every assumption behind it, before the numbers.
8,207
kWh a year, measured
Three complete calendar years off the inverter. The same 22.5 kWh a day you just read, carried forward.
0.5%
stepped down every year
From where my panels sit today, because that is the degradation they are warrantied against.
35
cents a kWh, held flat the whole way
The same price used above. Power will not stay at 35 cents. It has gone up every year I have owned this house.
I would rather hand you a low number than a number I made up.
161,319
kWh still left in it
My roof is 3.9 years into a 25 year panel warranty. That is what the remaining 21.1 years make at my own measured rate, stepped down every year, not a brochure rate. Lifetime comes to 192,900 kWh.
$56,462
that power, at today's 35 cents
Held flat for 21 years on purpose, which is the least likely thing on this page. Add the $11,053 already made and the 25 year figure is $67,515.
54.0
more tonnes of CO2 kept off the grid
Same 335 g per kWh Alberta number used above, not the older 490 g table. On top of the 10.6 tonnes so far, that is 64.6 tonnes across the full 25 years.
The same 25 years, put in the units people actually picture. All three are the projection, not the record.
43
trees, absorbing carbon every day for all 25 years
1,077
tree years, which is the number the factor actually gives
150
barrels of oil, matched on carbon over the full term
43 trees, not 1,077 trees. Here is the division everybody skips.
1,077
tree years
The published factor is 0.060 tonnes per urban tree per year, so this figure is tree years.
÷ 25
years of holding the line
The full warranty term the projection runs over.
43
trees
How many trees it actually takes. Nothing gets planted or cut down either way.
Anybody quoting you a four figure tree count off a roof this size is out by a factor of twenty five.
This is the part I actually believe in and it is why I sell it with a straight face. Four years of my own meter, not a manufacturer's projection sheet.
Every one of these is worked out line by line, with the sources linked and the flattering version I turned down. See the whole calculation
The track record under the claim
I lived under this exact system for three years before I ever sold you one.
50 projects I can name here, not 5,000 I cannot. Town, panel count, inverter brand, on every one.
The honest part most installers hide
We turn down winter solar work. On purpose.
Four steps. Tap each one.
1 of 4Where it starts
Panels mounted through a January cold snap
I have worked roofs at minus 25. It can be done. It cannot be done right.
2 of 4Then this
The sealant on the roof penetrations fails
Every bolt through your shingles is a hole. I drill them, so I know. Sealant is the only thing between that hole and your attic.
3 of 4Then this
The manufacturer walks from the warranty
Pull up your panel warranty and read the exceptions. Improper installation is on that list. So is damage to your property.
4 of 4And you pay
The roof is yours to pay for
Nobody is coming back for that. It is your roof and your money.
Right weather, by the book, or we wait. The trucks stay busy on electrical either way. A guy chasing your money books it anyway. We do not.
Yes, we opened the doors in August 2025
We are new as a company. That is the reason my name is on every job, not the excuse.
14 yearsOn the tools first. The company came after, on purpose.
2022My own roof goes live. Metered daily ever since.
Aug 2025Raydn opens. Every job permitted, inspected, warranty registered.
New does not mean unproven. It means you get the owner, on your roof.
Me, Kyle, and three more. No subcontractors, ever.
DN
Dmitry Naboka
Owner · Master Electrician #13824
Designs and signs off every system.
KV
Kyle V.
Co-owner · Journeyman Electrician
20 years in the trade. On the roof and on the tools, every job.
We still answer for every roof we have ever touched. And the profit from clean, honest work goes toward funding a dog sanctuary.
Got a question about any of that. Call me.(780) 904-3462
Every install, documented to the spec.
These are our roofs. Not stock photos, not lifted off somebody else’s job.
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BeforeAfter
Panel Upgrade, Edmonton
Electrical Panel Edmonton
BeforeAfter
Before you chase the lowest number
The cheapest quote is only cheap until the corner it cut shows up.
A low number is easy to write. I have read enough of these to know where that money comes from, and it is almost always one of these three. Here is what the cheap quote leaves out, and why it lands back on you.
1. The permit row is missing
The cheap quoteNo permit, no inspection. Uninsurable, and a problem the day you sell the house.
What I doPermitted and inspected under my licence #13824. That row is not optional.
2. A subcontractor you never meet
The cheap quoteYour roof handed to whoever is cheapest that week. The warranty call goes out of province.
What I doMy own crew does every job. The warranty call comes to my cell.
3. The wrong size, sold fast
The cheap quoteSized off a satellite image with no site visit. Undersize it and you still pay a power bill. Oversize it and you paid for panels that never earn out.
What I doI walk the roof and the panel first. The system fits the house, not the sales target.
The Alberta math, nothing hidden
What an 8 kW Edmonton roof actually costs.
Best case $2.25/WYour install price: $2.75/WTop of range $3.00/W
Most Edmonton jobs land right there. That price sits at the low end of the Alberta average, $2.60 to $3.27 per watt, per the independent tracker EnergyHub.
Why not $2.00, and why some run toward $3
Why mine is not the $2.00 quote. The cheap number usually skips two things: the permit and a real site assessment. I pull the permit, I check your panel and roof before I quote, and I wait for dry weather so the roof penetrations seal right. That is the gap between the low number and mine. You are paying for the job that still holds a warranty in ten years, not the one booked in a January cold snap.
And why some builds run toward $3. The high end is scope, not markup. The number climbs when the system gets bigger and does more: a larger array, longer or harder cable runs, a battery bank to run the essentials off stored sun, an EV charger, whole-home backup. At the very top sits the fully integrated build with a standby generator behind the battery, so the power never stops. You decide how far to take it, and the price follows the system you actually choose.
$22,000Installed, all in8 kW at your price
11 yrsPays for itselfThen 14 years of free power
$70,85625-year power savings3.2x what it cost you
Every number we used
Production1,200 kWh/kW per year
Power rate$0.19/kWh, all in
Rate increases4% per year
Panel wear0.5% per year
That $0.19 is the blended rate that actually lands on your bill: energy plus delivery, transmission, and admin. Every increase makes solar pay back faster, not slower.
And we stand behind it, in writing
5-year workmanship warrantyMy labour and my install, on every solar job.
25-year product and performance warrantyManufacturer backed, on the panels themselves.
The half a percent a year step down is the figure the panels are warrantied against, and it is also the middle of the measured evidence. NREL, Photovoltaic Degradation Rates, An Analytical Review, read 27 August 2026, assembled nearly 2,000 measured degradation rates and reports a mean of 0.8 percent a year and a median of 0.5 percent a year. The rate on the power price is a different thing entirely. It is off my own July statement, held flat on purpose, and power has gone up every year I have owned this house.
Every rate here is a published third party figure or is labelled as my own. If one has moved since the read date, tell me and I will correct the page.
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