Watts Up Solar is a great company to work with for solar installation. They provided help to work through the rebates and financing available, expedited the installation quickly and worked safely. High recommended.
The Default Choice for Solar in Nova Scotia.
We've been doing this since 2014, before SolarHomes, before Greener Homes rebates, before the boom.
Go Quote YourselfProvince-Wide Track Record
1613+ Systems
Installed Across Nova Scotia
19.8 MW
Total DC
7
Years #1
2014
Year Established
Engineers, Not Salespeople
Watts Up Solar is Nova Scotia's specialist in high-reliability residential and commercial solar. We started installing in 2014, before there were rebates to install solar for. That decade-long head start, and our refusal to compromise on equipment, is why we install roughly 1 in 5 residential PV systems in this province.
We only install Enphase microinverters because long-term performance, safety, and uptime matter more than anything else over a 25-year system life. Our team designs and builds systems for Canadian winters and coastal weather, with neat wiring, perfectly aligned arrays, and clean penetrations.
Seven consecutive years as the Consumer Choice Award winner for solar energy in Halifax & the Greater Region. With transparent pricing, clear timelines, and responsive support, we aim to be the easiest part of your home upgrade.
Our Unique Approach
No One Knows Sun Like We Do.
The Proof
"Trustworthy" is a claim every installer makes. These are the things you can verify yourself, today, before you ever speak to us.
Every Install. Public. With Live Uptime.
Every Watts Up system is in our live database, with real-time uptime visible on every system page. We know the biggest concern is being left in the dark if your installer stops picking up the phone. Public uptime is our answer to that fear. If a Watts Up roof goes dark, the whole internet can see it. We're the only solar company in North America that publishes its installs this way. We are committed to maintaining our fleet, satisfying our customers and ensuring long-term performance for every system we install.
Reviews Tied to Real Installs.
260+ five-star Google reviews. Every single one tied to an actual installed system you can find on our map. Click any review, see the panels on the roof. We don't review-farm. We don't ask after a phone call or a site visit. We ask after commissioning, with the system producing power for a full year.
A Real Price List.
Homeowners assume every solar installer has a price list. Most don't. Most are contractors or sales teams who charge whatever they decide the customer will pay. That's why you see "limited-time rebates" and "exclusive discounts" all over the industry: save for actual government programs, a "rebate" is a marketing word chosen to make a discount sound more official, and a discount can't exist unless there's a published baseline price to discount from. And there isn't, because nobody publishes one.
We do. Every panel, inverter, and battery we sell has its price on our pricing page. No commissioned salespeople. No door-to-door. No high-pressure tactics. Read the numbers before we ever speak.
No Middlemen. Start to Finish.
The solar industry runs on middlemen. Most solar companies are either sales teams who don't actually install and instead outsource the job to whichever contractor will take the lead, or contractors who buy those leads from the sales teams. Either way, two parties take a cut, and you pay both.
We do the whole thing, start to finish. No bought leads. No commissioned sales. No subcontracting. Our marketing is word-of-mouth, and our installers are the most seasoned crew in the province. The team that designs your system installs your system, and is still here years later if it ever needs anything.
No One Knows Sun Like We Do.
We Don't Just Install Solar. We Engineer It.
Most solar quotes you'll see in Nova Scotia are produced by stock proposal software running standard PVWatts inputs. Ours aren't.
We've built a physically-based solar irradiance and energy simulation framework from first principles. Anisotropic Perez-model sky decomposition, ray-traced geometry-aware shading, bifacial rear-irradiance modelling, and GPU-accelerated scene evaluation. It captures spatial and directional variability that conventional tools approximate away.
We validated it against PVWatts (NREL's industry-standard reference): equivalent to within ±0.92% mean deviation under unshaded conditions, then we extended it to model the physical effects PVWatts ignores. Every quote we send is backed by this engine.
Powerlily
Used daily by installers across North America.
We packaged this engine into Powerlily. A solar proposal platform now used by installers across North America. The same technology designs your system and is continuously being improved upon.
Equipment Standard
We Refuse to Install Cheap Inverters.
Hoymiles, Solis, and other budget alternatives would put more money in our pockets. We don't install them. The inverter is the single biggest determinant of a solar system's lifetime ROI. Cheaper inverters fail sooner, cost more to replace, and quietly destroy the value of the system over its 25-year life.
We use Enphase microinverters exclusively, giving our customers panel-level optimization, a 25-year warranty, and the gold standard in solar monitoring. It's the obvious choice for solar built to last.
Pay When Operational
You Don't Pay Until Your System Is Running.
No deposit on signing. No progress payments tied to milestones we set. No invoice until your system has been inspected, approved by the utility, and is producing power.
If the install drags, that's our problem to solve, not your money to chase.
Consumer Advocacy
We Call Out Predatory Financing.
Most installers will quietly let a bad financing scheme destroy the financial value of a solar system rather than risk the sale. We won't. We name the schemes (and the companies running them) on our blog: deferred-interest "0%" loans that hide $10,000+ in admin fees, "don't pay until 2027" promotions that lock homeowners into 13.99% interest for 19 years, review-farmed startups that claim a thousand installs they didn't do.
If a financing option will cost you more over its life than the solar system saves, we'll tell you. Then we point you at the municipal PACE programs that actually work.
Start to Finish
Family-Run. In-House. No Subcontracting.
When a Watts Up van pulls into your driveway, the people in it work for Watts Up. We don't subcontract installs to whichever crew is cheapest this week. The same team designs your system, installs it, commissions it, and answers the phone if anything ever needs attention. From Halifax to the Valley to Cape Breton, every install is ours.
- Full in-house install crews and electricians
- Permits, inspections, and utility interconnection handled end-to-end
- Clean job sites; respectful, communicative, on-time
- 10-year labour warranty; proactive monitoring after turn-on
From First Call to Turn-On
The Process
Five steps. The fourth is when you pay.
- 1. Design & Quote. Share your address; we model your roof and give you a transparent, line-item quote.
- 2. Applications & Permits. We handle every form, every utility approval, every inspection booking.
- 3. Installation. Polite, tidy in-house crews complete most installs in 1–2 days.
- 4. Inspection & Turn-On. We coordinate inspections, commission the system, and walk you through the Enphase app. Now you pay.
- 5. Ongoing Support. Panel-level monitoring, proactive outreach if anything looks off, warranty support for the life of the system.
Independently Recognized.
Seven years running as the Consumer Choice Award winner for solar energy systems in Halifax and the Greater Region. BBB-accredited with an A+ rating. Quoted by Enphase Energy in their official North American grid-services announcement. Active partner in Nova Scotia's Eco Shift virtual power plant pilot, turning rooftops into grid infrastructure.
Real Customers, Real Systems
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What Our Customers Say
Every review below is from a verified solar system owner. Click View System to see the actual install on the map; click Read on Google to verify the review at its source.
Wattsup solar has been amazing. They installed my system a few years back with no issues and everything was done quickly. I’ve had a few internet issues and they have came multiple times to adjust the enphase so that I c…
The team at Watts Up Solar installed our system a month before this review and we are thrilled with the results. The installation occurred across a busy summer season with a heat wave and a hurricane interceding but the …
This company was a pleasure to deal with. My 11 year old 30 panel solar system needed a replacement micro inverter which Enphase sent me under warranty. My initial contact was by email with a prompt response and within a…
Our solar system was completed about 3 weeks ago and we couldn't be happier with our new system from WattsUp Solar. From answering questions about our quote to completing all the applications for us through the different…
We met with Jamie Rendle last September and, after receiving our proposal, we decided to go with a spring install. In late March Jamie contacted us that we were on the list to get our racking/inverters and everything wen…
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