Every line item in an Alberta solar quote, nothing hidden.

Tier-1 modules (Q CELLS, Canadian Solar, Silfab, REC, Trina) with 25-year manufacturer warranty. Higher wattage or all-black cosmetic panels sit at the top of the range. Beware anything below $0.40 / watt in 2026, it usually means off-brand modules or grey-market inventory.

Enphase IQ8 microinverters (25-year warranty, per-panel monitoring) sit at the top of the range. A single string inverter (Fronius, SolarEdge, EG4) is cheaper up front, cheaper to replace, but a single point of failure. Both are legitimate choices. Raydn defaults to Enphase for most residential jobs because the shading and MPPT tradeoffs favor micros in Edmonton.

IronRidge or Unirac rails, waterproof roof flashings at every penetration, MC4 connectors, EMT conduit, wire, DC disconnect, rapid-shutdown box, AC combiner. This is where the "10-year rack and roof-penetration warranty" comes from. If the price here looks low, ask what flashings are being used.

This is where corner-cutters cut. A proper crew is 3 to 4 tradespeople on the roof for a full day plus a Master Electrician of record signing off the AC tie-in. It also includes design, layout, engineering coordination, permit submission, inspection scheduling, and warranty paperwork registration. If someone is quoting well below $0.55/W here, they are either 1099'ing casual laborers or skipping design steps.

Required by most Alberta municipalities for the structural side of the roof-mount install. Some smaller systems on truss-rated roofs skip it; anything on rafters, on a commercial roof, or over ~10 kW almost always needs it. Not optional if the city asks for it.

Edmonton and each surrounding municipality (St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Leduc, Sherwood Park) set their own fees, but a residential solar permit lands in this range for most sizes. It pays for the city inspection of the AC side of the system.

Provincial electrical permit filed under the Master Electrician of record. Verifies that the whole install meets the current Canadian Electrical Code. Without this on file, the utility will not activate your system.

EPCOR (or FortisAlberta, ENMAX, ATCO depending on your address) swaps your existing meter for a bidirectional model that reads both consumption and export. Fee is set by the utility, not the installer. Once installed, your microgen goes live.

Filed by your installer with EPCOR / FortisAlberta / your local wire owner. No fee, but the paperwork is real and slow. If you see a "microgen filing fee" on a quote, that is markup, not a real cost. See our EPCOR microgen guide for the process.

Province-wide environmental fee administered by Alberta Recycling Management Authority. On a 22-panel job that is $330. It is a pass-through, not a Raydn markup. Full explainer: Solar Recycling Fee Explained.

Enphase Envoy gateway (or SolarEdge equivalent), wifi setup, panel-level monitoring app, first-run commissioning. Every legitimate Alberta installer bundles this. If you see it as a separate fee, ask what it covers.

Typical when solar is the reason. Full range across all panel work is $2,200 to $6,500 and up. If your home is on 100 A service, most systems above 6 kW will require a panel upgrade. We check the main breaker at the assessment, not after.

One shading tree can knock 15% off your annual production. If it needs to go, it needs to go before install. We flag it, you decide.

We will not put racking on shingles that will fail inside our 10-year rack warranty. If your roof is near end-of-life, we say so before you buy panels.

Rare, but on older streets EPCOR occasionally flags the pole transformer as too small for your export. We run the microgen application early so this surfaces before install day.