Elexicon Energy and Solar Panels: The Complete 2026 Guide

Elexicon Energy and Solar Panels: The Complete 2026 Guide

Published: June 23, 2026 | Updated: June 24, 2026 | Reading time: 12 minutes | By: Solar Calculator Canada Editorial Team

Quick answer: Elexicon Energy customers across Ontario, from Ajax and Pickering to Belleville, Gravenhurst, Port Hope, and everywhere in between, can install solar panels and choose between net metering credits, Ontario HRSP rebates up to $10,000, and the Ultra-Low Overnight rate plan. This guide covers exactly how each option works, who qualifies, what the contact process looks like, and what the numbers actually mean for your bill.

If your electricity bill comes from Elexicon Energy, you are one of nearly 200,000 residential and business customers the utility serves across Ontario. Elexicon is the fourth-largest municipally owned electricity distributor in the province, and its service territory spans a wide range of communities well beyond any single region.

The full list of areas Elexicon serves includes:

• Ajax
• Pickering
• Whitby, including Brooklin and Ashburn
• Clarington, including Bowmanville, Newcastle, and Orono
• Belleville
• Brock, including Beaverton, Cannington, and Sunderland
• Gravenhurst
• Port Hope
• Scugog, including Port Perry
• Uxbridge

Elexicon is owned by five municipalities: the Town of Ajax, the City of Belleville, the Municipality of Clarington, the City of Pickering, and the Town of Whitby. It is regulated by the Ontario Energy Board, which sets the electricity rates customers pay and the rules for how distributed generation, including rooftop solar, connects to the grid.

The geography matters for this guide because a customer in Belleville searching "Elexicon Energy solar" has the same access to net metering, the same OEB-regulated rates, and the same HRSP rebate eligibility as a customer in Ajax. The programs are province-wide. The utility is Elexicon. This guide is for all of them.

Yes, and the process is clearly documented on Elexicon's own website.

Elexicon Energy is committed to facilitating the connection of customer-owned generation equipment, as required by the Ontario Energy Board's Distribution System Code. Rooftop solar falls under the category of Distributed Energy Resources. Elexicon supports three connection types: net metering, load displacement, and standalone backup generation.

For most homeowners, the relevant paths are net metering and load displacement paired with a battery. Here is how each one works.

How It Works

Your solar panels generate electricity during daylight hours. Your home uses what it needs in real time. Any electricity produced beyond your home's immediate demand flows into the Elexicon distribution grid. Elexicon measures both what you import from the grid and what you export to it. You receive a bill credit for your exports, and that credit is applied against future electricity charges.

There are two different kinds of value here, and it helps to keep them separate because they are worth different amounts.

The first is self-consumption value. Every kilowatt-hour your panels produce that your home uses in real time is a kilowatt-hour you do not buy from the grid. If you are on TOU and your panels power your home at noon, you avoid paying the mid-peak or on-peak rate for that electricity. This is the most valuable part of solar, because you are offsetting electricity at the full retail price you would otherwise pay.

The second is export-credit value. When your panels produce more than your home is using, the surplus flows to the grid and earns a credit. Under Ontario Regulation 541/05, that credit is valued at the commodity rate for your rate class, not at a premium. On TOU specifically, most solar export happens during mid-peak and off-peak windows, so the effective credit value for exports is typically in the 9.8 to 15.7 cent range rather than the 20.3 cent on-peak rate. This is an important distinction that a lot of solar marketing glosses over. Net metering does not pay you the peak rate for power you send to the grid.

Credits accumulate on a rolling 12-month balance. If a credit balance has been carried forward in every billing period across the preceding 12 months, the remaining balance is reset to zero (O. Reg. 541/05, section 8(8)). In plain terms, you build credits through the summer and draw them down through the winter, and a properly sized system returns close to zero by the end of its annual cycle. An oversized system that consistently produces far more than your household can use will build credits that eventually reset, which is wasted production. This is why correct sizing matters more than maximum sizing.

Micro-Generation Threshold at Elexicon

Elexicon uses a 12 kW threshold for micro-generation, which is the simplified application path for most residential solar customers. The Ontario Energy Board raised the residential micro-generation limit to 12 kW, and Elexicon applies that threshold. Systems at or below 12 kW use the streamlined micro-generation process. Systems above 12 kW require a separate planning review before interconnection can proceed.

This matters because most residential rooftop solar systems in Ontario fall in the 5 to 12 kW range, which means the majority of Elexicon homeowners qualify for the simpler process. The higher 12 kW limit also gives homeowners with EV charging or electric heating more room to size a system around real modern electricity use.

The Net Metering Application Steps at Elexicon

Your licensed solar installer manages most of this process, but it is useful to understand the sequence:

1. Your installer sizes the system based on your actual annual electricity consumption and roof characteristics.
2. The installer prepares and submits the interconnection package to Elexicon Distribution Services.
3. Elexicon reviews the application under the OEB's Distribution System Code.
4. The Electrical Safety Authority issues the installation permit.
5. Your installer completes the physical installation.
6. Elexicon and the ESA inspect and approve the connection.
7. Elexicon updates your meter to a bidirectional meter that tracks both import and export.
8. Your system activates and you start generating, self-consuming, and banking credits.

For systems at or below 12 kW, the application goes to dservices@elexiconenergy.com. For systems above 12 kW, start with planning@elexiconenergy.com for a capacity review before anything else moves forward.

The Ontario Energy Board sets electricity rates for all residential customers across the province, including Elexicon customers. There are three plans available, and the one you are on directly affects how much value your solar system delivers and whether adding a battery makes financial sense.

All rates below are OEB-regulated and effective November 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026.

Time-of-Use (TOU)

TOU is the default plan for most Elexicon customers. Solar panels produce most of their output during the daytime, so the electricity you self-consume directly offsets mid-peak and on-peak grid power. Note that surplus you export does not earn the on-peak rate; export credits are valued at your commodity rate. The strongest financial case on TOU comes from consuming your own solar in real time rather than exporting it.

Ultra-Low Overnight (ULO)

ULO is where the numbers become significant for homeowners pairing solar with battery storage. The spread between the overnight rate (3.9 cents) and the weekday on-peak rate (39.1 cents) is 35.2 cents per kilowatt-hour. A battery that charges at 3.9 cents every night and avoids drawing from the grid during the 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. window five days a week is generating real daily savings from rate arbitrage alone, independent of what the solar panels are producing.

Elexicon Energy launched the ULO plan in October 2023, and it has been available to all eligible residential and small business customers with smart meters since then. You can switch to it at any time by submitting an election form to Elexicon. You are not locked in. If ULO does not work for your household pattern, you can switch back.

Tiered

Tiered pricing does not vary by time of day, which removes the strategic time-shifting advantage that makes solar plus storage most valuable. Most solar planning conversations for Elexicon customers end up focused on TOU or ULO.

If capturing Ontario's current incentive program is a priority, the load-displacement path is the model to understand. This is the approach required to qualify for the Home Renovation Savings Program solar rebate.

Under load displacement, the solar system is engineered so that total generation output stays below the household's total electricity consumption at all times. All generated power is consumed on-site. Any momentary surplus that cannot be self-consumed is absorbed by a battery rather than exported to the grid. Nothing is sent to Elexicon's distribution system, and no export credit is earned. Instead, the household avoids buying electricity it would otherwise pay for, maximizing self-consumption and peak avoidance.

This is typically paired with the ULO rate plan. Solar produces electricity during the day. A battery captures whatever the home does not use immediately. When the ULO on-peak window opens at 4 p.m., the battery discharges to power the home through the 39.1-cent period without drawing from the grid.

HRSP Rebate Amounts for Elexicon Customers

Elexicon Energy is a participating Local Distribution Company for Ontario's Home Renovation Savings Program. That means Elexicon customers are eligible for the following rebates, delivered through the HRSP.

A 5 kW solar system paired with approximately 16 kWh of battery storage reaches the combined $10,000 cap. That is a significant reduction against a typical installed cost of $22,000 to $32,000 for that combination in Ontario.

The HRSP launched January 28, 2025 and runs through November 30, 2026. Pre-approvals must be issued before the deadline. Work completed after the deadline may still qualify if pre-approval was granted before it, but confirm current terms with your installer.

The Decision That Matters: HRSP or Net Metering

This is the most important choice Elexicon customers face in 2026. Ontario program rules are clear: customers who receive HRSP rebates for solar are not eligible to simultaneously participate in a net metering agreement with their Local Distribution Company. You pick one path.

Neither path is universally better. The right answer depends on how your household actually uses electricity, hour by hour. A family that is home all day and consumes most solar production directly may find the HRSP path pays off faster. A household that exports heavily all summer benefits more from net metering credits over time.

The only way to know for your specific home is to model it with your actual electricity data. Green Button hourly data from your Elexicon account makes that calculation accurate instead of generic.

For a deeper side-by-side, see our HRSP Rebate vs Net Metering Ontario 2026 guide.

Get your free estimate using the Solar Calculator Canada tool.

Solar pricing in Ontario has been relatively stable in 2025 and 2026. These are realistic market ranges for installed systems:

Prices include panels, inverter, mounting hardware, wiring, ESA permit, and installation labour. Battery storage adds $7,000 to $20,000 depending on capacity and brand, before the $5,000 HRSP battery rebate.

For a detailed provincial breakdown, see Solar Panel Cost Canada.

Payback depends on system size, rate plan, battery inclusion, and rebates claimed. These are realistic ranges based on Ontario conditions.

Net Metering, TOU Plan, 7 kW System, No Battery

A 7 kW system in southern Ontario typically generates 7,000 to 8,500 kWh per year. Real savings depend on how much of that you self-consume versus export, since exports earn the commodity rate rather than the on-peak rate. For a household with moderate daytime use, annual savings commonly land in the $1,000 to $1,800 range. At an installed cost of $18,000 to $20,000 with no rebate, payback typically falls in the 12 to 20 year window, shortening as Ontario electricity rates continue rising.

HRSP Path, ULO Plan, 5 kW Solar Plus 16 kWh Battery

After the $10,000 HRSP rebate, net cost is approximately $18,000 to $25,000. On ULO, avoiding the 39.1-cent on-peak window every weekday evening while discharging a battery that charged overnight at 3.9 cents generates meaningful daily savings beyond simple solar self-consumption. Annual savings in the $2,000 to $3,000 range are realistic for households with moderate evening loads. Payback in the 8 to 14 year range is achievable for this combination.

For a personalized calculation using your actual Elexicon bill and consumption data, see our Ontario solar payback period guide.

Elexicon's service territory spans a significant geographic range. Solar production varies somewhat depending on where you are.

Communities like Ajax, Pickering, Whitby, and Clarington sit in the southern Ontario solar belt, comparable to Toronto's approximately 1,100 to 1,250 kWh of annual production per kilowatt of installed solar capacity. Belleville, further east, receives similar irradiance. Gravenhurst, being farther north in the Muskoka region, receives slightly lower annual sun hours but still produces meaningful solar output with appropriate system sizing.

The variables that matter most for any individual property are roof orientation, roof pitch, and shading. A south-facing roof at a 30 to 40 degree pitch maximizes annual output. East or west-facing panels produce roughly 15 to 20 percent less annually. Shade from trees, chimneys, or adjacent structures is the most significant individual variable affecting production.

For system sizing guidance, see our Solar System Size Guide.

Elexicon Energy customers have access to Green Button data under Ontario Regulation 633/21, which mandated utilities including Elexicon to offer customers access to their hourly electricity interval data.

Green Button gives you up to 24 months of hour-by-hour consumption data from your property. A solar installer or solar calculator tool that uses Green Button data can:

• Size the system to match your actual annual and seasonal consumption instead of guessing from a single bill number
• Determine whether TOU or ULO makes more financial sense for your household based on when you actually consume electricity
• Size a battery to cover the loads that run after sunset rather than an averaged generic estimate
• Model whether net metering credit accumulation across seasonal cycles works in your favour or if the HRSP path is better

You access Green Button through your Elexicon online account at my.elexicon. Two options are available: Download My Data, which gives you an XML file to share with your installer, and Connect My Data, which authorizes an approved third party to access your interval data directly.

If you have an existing microFIT or FIT contract, these programs are closed to new applications. Your existing contract remains in effect for its full 20-year term. When your contract ends, you have the option to contact Elexicon and transition to net metering.

To transfer ownership of an existing generation account, contact the Independent Electricity System Operator through the Beacon portal, or by email at microfit.contract@ieso.ca. The current owner initiates the transfer.

For billing or payment issues on an existing contract, contact Elexicon's Customer Care team at customercare@elexiconenergy.com.

This guide is produced by the Solar Calculator Canada Editorial Team. Every data point has been verified against primary sources before publication.

Sources used for this article:

• Ontario Energy Board official electricity rates page (oeb.ca): TOU, ULO, and Tiered rates effective November 1, 2025
• Ontario Energy Board net metering information (oeb.ca): Ontario Regulation 541/05
• Elexicon Energy Generating Your Own Power page (elexiconenergy.com): net metering, load displacement, and backup generation options
• Elexicon Energy Micro-generation page (elexiconenergy.com): 12 kW micro-generation threshold confirmed
• Elexicon Energy Rate Options page (elexiconenergy.com): TOU, ULO, and Tiered plan availability, ULO launch October 2023
• Elexicon Energy press releases via Newswire (September 2025): customer count approximately 200,000, fourth-largest municipally owned LDC in Ontario, five shareholder municipalities confirmed
• Save On Energy Home Renovation Savings Program: HRSP solar and battery rebate amounts and eligibility

All rate figures reflect OEB-regulated pricing effective November 1, 2025. HRSP program details reflect terms as of June 2026, valid through November 30, 2026. Program terms can change. Always verify current eligibility with a registered participating contractor before committing to any installation path.

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