Calgary Solar Assessments for Commercial Buildings and Nearby Acreages

Calgary is a city of about 1.3 million people, and its sunshine is one of the better-documented numbers in the province: Calgary International Airport averages about 2,396 hours of bright sunshine a year in the 1991 to 2020 normals, or about 52% of the daylight hours possible. Energy, finance, logistics, manufacturing and retail all have large buildings here, and each has its own bill.

QuotePath's focus is the part of the market that is not a typical home: commercial and light industrial buildings, and the acreages in Springbank, Bearspaw and Elbow Valley just outside the city limits in Rocky View County and Foothills County. These properties often have larger loads, shops or outbuildings, and different rate classes from a house.

For a commercial building, the useful questions are how steady the daytime load is, how big the roof is and whether demand charges drive the bill. For an acreage, they are which meter carries the load and whether trees or slope limit where panels can go.