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Terms of Use

Last updated: June 3, 2026

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") set out the rules that govern your access to and use of the Canadian Energy Guide website, located at canadianenergyguide.com, together with all educational guides, province-by-province cost comparisons, downloadable resources, and related features made available through it. Please read these Terms carefully. They form a binding agreement between you and Canadian Energy Guide and explain both what you can expect from us and what we expect from you.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing, browsing, or otherwise using canadianenergyguide.com in any way — including by reading our articles, viewing our cost comparisons, or requesting our installer-quote evaluation checklist — you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, each of which is incorporated here by reference. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must not use the Site. Your continued use of the Site after any update to these Terms constitutes your acceptance of the revised version.

2. Definitions

In these Terms, the following words have the meanings set out below:

3. About Our Service & Educational Purpose

Canadian Energy Guide is an independent consumer-education publisher focused on residential solar power in Canada. Our purpose is to help Canadian homeowners understand their options in plain language. The Site provides educational guides, province-by-province cost comparisons covering Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, and a free downloadable installer-quote evaluation checklist designed to help you compare offers you receive from solar companies.

It is essential that you understand what we do not do. The Publisher:

Our role begins and ends with publishing independent educational information. Any decision to purchase, finance, or install a solar energy system is yours alone.

4. No Professional Advice & Accuracy Disclaimer

All Content on the Site is provided for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not, and should not be relied upon as, professional advice of any kind. Reading our guides does not create any advisory, fiduciary, or professional relationship between you and the Publisher.

Every cost figure, payback period, rebate amount, incentive, financing example, energy yield, and savings projection published on the Site is an estimate only. These figures vary significantly depending on your location, your roof's orientation, age, and condition, your household's electricity consumption, prevailing electricity rates, equipment selection, and the terms offered by individual installers. Government rebates, net-metering rules, and provincial incentive programs change frequently and may differ across Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, and Nova Scotia. We make reasonable efforts to keep our Content current, but we do not warrant that any figure, program detail, or statement is accurate, complete, or up to date at the time you read it.

Before making any decision, you should consult qualified and licensed professionals — such as a certified solar installer, a financial advisor, a tax professional, or an electrical engineer — and independently verify current rebate eligibility, policy details, and pricing with the relevant authority or provider. You assume full responsibility for any reliance you place on the Content.

5. Eligibility

The Site is intended for use by adults. By using the Site or submitting any information through it, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age or have reached the age of majority in your province or territory of residence, whichever is greater, and that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms. If you do not meet these requirements, you must not use the Site or submit any information to us.

6. Acceptable Use & User Obligations

You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. When you submit information through any form on the Site, you agree to provide information that is accurate, current, and complete, and to keep it truthful. You further agree that you will not:

We reserve the right to restrict or terminate your access to the Site, without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these obligations.

7. Intellectual Property

All Content on the Site — including the text of our guides, our province-by-province comparisons, images, graphics, page design and layout, the Canadian Energy Guide name and logo, and our installer-quote evaluation checklist — is owned by the Publisher or its licensors and is protected under the Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42) and other applicable Canadian and international intellectual property laws.

You may view, download, and print Content for your own personal, non-commercial reference only, provided you do not remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. Except as expressly permitted above, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, sell, or otherwise exploit any Content, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission. Unauthorized use of our Content may give rise to a claim for damages and may constitute a criminal offence.

8. Lead Forms & Submissions

The Site offers forms through which you may request our free installer-quote evaluation checklist or contact our editorial team. To submit a form, you may be asked to provide details such as your name and email address and to tick a consent checkbox confirming that you have read and agree to our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect and handle your personal information.

Submitting a form is solely a request for educational materials or for contact from our editorial team. It does not create any contract, retainer, or obligation between you and the Publisher, and it does not guarantee that any solar product, service, installation, quote, or financing will be provided to you by us or by any Partner Installer. You are responsible for ensuring that the information you submit is accurate and that you are entitled to share it.

9. Affiliate Disclosure

Canadian Energy Guide may earn compensation from Partner Installers when readers engage with featured offers, follow certain links, or are referred to an installer. This affiliate compensation helps fund our research and allows us to keep our educational Content free for readers. We disclose this relationship openly and prominently throughout the Site.

We are committed to editorial independence. Receiving compensation does not change how we present the risks, limitations, costs, or trade-offs associated with residential solar. Our cost comparisons, cautions, and estimate disclaimers are presented on their merits and are not altered, softened, or removed because a company is a paying partner.

10. Third-Party Links & Partner Installers

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, resources, and Partner Installers that are not owned or controlled by the Publisher. We provide these links for your convenience and information only. We do not endorse, monitor, or assume any responsibility for the content, products, services, quotes, pricing, warranties, workmanship, or privacy practices of any third party.

Any contract, transaction, communication, or other engagement you enter into with a Partner Installer or any other third party is solely between you and that party. You should review the terms, policies, and credentials of any third party before dealing with them. The Publisher is not a party to, and accepts no liability for, any such dealings, including the quality, timeliness, safety, or outcome of any solar installation or service.

11. Limitation of Liability

The Site and all Content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties or representations of any kind, whether express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Canadian law. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that any defects will be corrected, or that the Site or its servers are free of harmful components.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Publisher and its contributors, suppliers, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, savings, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Site or any Content, or your reliance on any estimate, comparison, or other information published on the Site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Publisher and its contributors, suppliers, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or related to your misuse of the Site, your breach of these Terms, your violation of any applicable law, or your infringement of any right of any third party.

13. Force Majeure

The Publisher will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of its obligations that is caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Such events include, without limitation, natural disasters, severe weather, fires, floods, epidemics or pandemics, acts of government, civil unrest, labour disputes, power or telecommunications outages, internet service disruptions, cyberattacks, and hosting or other technical failures.

14. Changes to the Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our Site, our practices, or the law. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date shown at the top of this page. Any changes take effect as soon as the revised Terms are posted on the Site. It is your responsibility to review these Terms periodically. Your continued use of the Site after a change has been posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.

15. Governing Law & Disputes

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, the Site, or its Content are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. You agree that the courts located in the Province of Ontario will have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any such dispute, subject to any non-waivable rights you may have as a consumer under the laws of your home province or territory.

Before commencing any formal proceeding, we encourage you to contact us so that we can attempt to resolve the matter in good faith. Many concerns can be addressed quickly and informally by reaching out to our editorial team at the address below.

16. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, or about your use of the Site, please contact us: