Rimbey Solar Assessments for Farms, Shops and Small Businesses

Rimbey is a town of 2,470 people in Ponoka County, at the junction of Highways 20 and 53 in the Blindman River valley, 62 km northwest of Red Deer. It began as Kansas Ridge around 1902 and was renamed in 1904. It became a village in 1919 and a town in 1948. Farming is the main base, with oil and gas a growing sector.

The town has Pas-Ka-Poo Park with its museums, the Smithson International Truck Museum, a hospital and RCMP detachment, an outdoor pool and Central Alberta Raceways with a drag strip and dirt oval. Those add seasonal loads that peak in summer, which lines up with solar production.

On farms and in oil and gas service shops around Rimbey, the bill tells us whether the load is steady daytime lighting or motor-driven peaks. We say which, and what to do first.