Mackenzie sits 28 km off the highway at the south end of Williston Lake, and being off the mainline is exactly why a lot of trades never turn up. We do — for solar, battery storage and back-up power, as a licensed electrical contractor.
A battery paired with an automatic generator changeover means a winter outage does not depend on someone being home to start something.
Solar turns an ongoing bill that keeps climbing into a fixed asset you own. For a household on a shift income, that predictability is often the real value.
The rec centre, the hall, the shop: buildings that draw hard in daylight are where an array pays back fastest, and where larger funding is available.
Mackenzie is about 183 km from our shop — north on Highway 97, then in on Highway 39. That is a real drive, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we will say is that it is priced into the job, and that a warranty callback in year four gets the same drive as the install did.
BC Hydro closed net metering to new customers on 1 July 2026. Under the Self-Generation rate that replaced it, the power you export is bought at 10 cents per kWh and credited on every bill rather than settled once a year.
Rebates are still on the table — up to $5,000 on solar and up to $5,000 on an eligible battery. But since 1 June 2026 BC Hydro only pays them when the work is done by a Home Performance Contractor Network member. We are one. If your installer is not, the rebate simply does not get paid.
Send your last BC Hydro bill and a photo of the roof or yard, and we will come back with real numbers.
Nechako Solar is a licensed BC electrical contractor, licence LEL0204111, and a member of BC Hydro’s Home Performance Contractor Network. Rebate amounts and rate details are current as of August 2026 and are set by BC Hydro, not by us.
