The Lakes District has more off-grid and rural properties than almost anywhere else on Highway 16, and a long memory for what happens when the power goes out for more than a day. We install solar, battery storage and automatic back-up power here, start to finish, under our own electrical licence.
You can order equipment online and have it on a pallet in your yard next week. What is harder to find out here is the rest of it: the design that suits your actual loads, the permit, the licensed electrician to terminate it, the inspection, and the BC Hydro interconnection at the end.
That is the part we do. We are an electrical contractor that installs solar, so the array, the battery, the panel work and the paperwork are one crew and one point of accountability — not a box of parts and a phone number.
Solar, battery bank and an automatic generator changeover, designed as one system for a property that was never going to be cheap to connect.
A battery that carries the essentials through an outage, without anyone starting a generator in a snowstorm.
Arenas, halls and shops draw hard during daylight hours, which is exactly when an array produces. That is the strongest case solar has.
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.
About 227 km west of Prince George on Highway 16, with Vanderhoof roughly halfway. We work along this corridor regularly, so a service call does not mean waiting for someone to come up from the coast.
Tell us about the property and what you need it to run. We will design something that actually suits it.
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.
